Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Huon, Having Slain a Giant, Came to Babylon, sentence 10
There was a certain damsel in the tower, Sybil by name, whom the giant kept prisoner, and she, hearing the sound, ran to a window and looked out.
Who acts: giant · What happens: keep, hear, be, look out · To what, where: Sybil, sound
This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How Huon, Having Slain a Giant, Came to Babylon. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (giant), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 was | expl |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 ran | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 damsel | det |
| 4 | certain | certain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 damsel | amod |
| 5 | damsel | damsel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 was | nsubj |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 tower | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 tower | det |
| 8 | tower | tower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 damsel | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 Sybil | punct |
| 10 | Sybil | sybil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 damsel | conj |
| 11 | by | by | ADP | _ | 12 name | case |
| 12 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 Sybil | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 kept | punct |
| 14 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 kept | obj |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 giant | det |
| 16 | giant | giant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 kept | nsubj |
| 17 | kept | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 Sybil | acl:relcl |
| 18 | prisoner | prisoner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 kept | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 hearing | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 hearing | cc |
| 21 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 hearing | nsubj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 hearing | punct |
| 23 | hearing | hear | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 was | advcl |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 sound | det |
| 25 | sound | sound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 hearing | obj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 ran | punct |
| 27 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 28 | to | to | ADP | _ | 30 window | case |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 window | det |
| 30 | window | window | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 ran | obl |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 looked | cc |
| 32 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 ran | conj |
| 33 | out | out | ADP | _ | 32 looked | compound:prt |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 27 ran | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep | past | the giant | Sybil by name | prisoner obj | vn sustain-55.6-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent whom=Theme prisoner=Attribute | |||
| 2 | hear | gerund | giant | the sound | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer sound=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | is | past | to a window; run property | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | look out | past | vn caring-75.2-2 «NP V PP»: 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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