Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Huon, Having Slain a Giant, Came to Babylon, sentence 118
When it was now midnight, and every one in the palace slept, she issued from her chamber, carrying a torch of wax in her hand.
Who acts: space, one, Esclairmonde · What happens: be, sleep, issue, carry · To what, where: midnight, chamber, torch, hand
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 (space, one, Esclairmonde), 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 | 5 midnight | advmod |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 midnight | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 midnight | cop |
| 4 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 midnight | advmod |
| 5 | midnight | midnight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 slept | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 slept | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 slept | cc |
| 8 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 9 one | det |
| 9 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 slept | nsubj |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 palace | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 palace | det |
| 12 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 one | nmod |
| 13 | slept | sleep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 issued | punct |
| 15 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 issued | nsubj |
| 16 | issued | issue | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 slept | conj |
| 17 | from | from | ADP | _ | 19 chamber | case |
| 18 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 chamber | nmod:poss |
| 19 | chamber | chamber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 issued | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 carrying | punct |
| 21 | carrying | carry | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 16 issued | advcl |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 torch | det |
| 23 | torch | torch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 carrying | obj |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 wax | case |
| 25 | wax | wax | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 torch | nmod |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 hand | case |
| 27 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 hand | nmod:poss |
| 28 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 carrying | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 slept | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | space | midnight | now | tree rules | |||
| 2 | sleep | past | every one in the palace | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | issue | past | Esclairmonde | Esclairmonde's chamber | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | carry | gerund | Esclairmonde not said here | a torch of wax | Esclairmonde's hand | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent torch=Value in hand=Location |
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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