Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Huon, Having Slain a Giant, Came to Babylon, sentence 119
When she came to the door of the dungeon, by good luck she found the jailor asleep, and taking his keys, opened the door of the dungeon.
Who acts: Esclairmonde · What happens: come, find, take, open · To what, where: door, jailor, keys
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 (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 | 3 came | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 came | nsubj |
| 3 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 opened | advcl |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 door | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 door | det |
| 6 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 came | obl |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 dungeon | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 dungeon | det |
| 9 | dungeon | dungeon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 door | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 luck | punct |
| 11 | by | by | ADP | _ | 13 luck | case |
| 12 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 luck | amod |
| 13 | luck | luck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 came | obl |
| 14 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 found | nsubj |
| 15 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 luck | acl:relcl |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 jailor | det |
| 17 | jailor | jailor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 found | obj |
| 18 | asleep | asleep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 jailor | amod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 taking | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 taking | cc |
| 21 | taking | take | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 came | advcl |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 keys | nmod:poss |
| 23 | keys | key | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 taking | obj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 came | punct |
| 25 | opened | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 door | det |
| 27 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 opened | obj |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 dungeon | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 dungeon | det |
| 30 | dungeon | dungeon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 door | nmod |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 25 opened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | Esclairmonde | the door of the dungeon | by good luck | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to door=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | find | past | Esclairmonde | the jailor | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent jailor=Topic | ||||
| 3 | take | gerund | Esclairmonde not said here | Huon's keys | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent key=Theme | ||||
| 4 | open | past | the door of the dungeon | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location door=Theme |
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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