Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the End of the False Duke Macaire, sentence 67
When Huon heard this he stood upon his feet, and put his helmet on his head and prepared to fight for his life.
Who acts: Huon, Duke · What happens: hear, stand, put, fight · To what, where: this, feet, helmet, head
This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Of the End of the False Duke Macaire. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Huon, Duke), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 heard | advmod |
| 2 | Huon | Huon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 heard | nsubj |
| 3 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 stood | advcl |
| 4 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 heard | obj |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 stood | nsubj |
| 6 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 9 feet | case |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 feet | nmod:poss |
| 9 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 stood | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 put | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 put | cc |
| 12 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 stood | conj |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 helmet | nmod:poss |
| 14 | helmet | helmet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 put | obj |
| 15 | on | on | ADP | _ | 17 head | case |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 head | nmod:poss |
| 17 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 put | obl |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 prepared | cc |
| 19 | prepared | prepared | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 head | conj |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 fight | mark |
| 21 | fight | fight | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 prepared | xcomp |
| 22 | for | for | ADP | _ | 24 life | case |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 life | nmod:poss |
| 24 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 fight | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past | Huon | this | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer this=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | stand | past | Duke | Duke's feet | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent upon foot=Location | ||||
| 3 | put | past | Duke not said here | Duke's helmet | Duke's head | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent helmet=Theme on head=Destination | |||
| 4 | fight | to-infinitive | Duke not said here | for Duke's life | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Project Gutenberg book 75339 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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