Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the End of the False Duke Macaire, sentence 83
That is easily done," answered the Provost, and he drew it from his bosom and gave it to Huon.
Who acts: Provost · What happens: do, answer, draw, give, bosom · To what, where: That, Provost, horn, bosom, Huon · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Provost), 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 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 done | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 done | aux:pass |
| 3 | easily | easily | ADV | _ | 4 done | advmod |
| 4 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 answered | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 answered | punct |
| 7 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 done | parataxis |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Provost | det |
| 9 | Provost | Provost | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 answered | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 drew | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 drew | cc |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 drew | nsubj |
| 13 | drew | draw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 answered | conj |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 drew | obj |
| 15 | from | from | ADP | _ | 17 bosom | case |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 bosom | nmod:poss |
| 17 | bosom | bosom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 drew | obl |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 gave | cc |
| 19 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 drew | conj |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 gave | obj |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 Huon | case |
| 22 | Huon | Huon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 gave | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 done | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | present · passive | That | easily property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | answer speech: assert in a quote | past | the Provost | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent provost=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | draw in a quote | past | Provost | horn | Provost's bosom | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent it=Theme from bosom=Initial_Location | |||
| 4 | give in a quote | past | Provost not said here | horn | Huon | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Theme to huon=Recipient | |||
| 5 | bosom in a quote | Provost | nom bosom «state transitive»: poss=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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