Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Huon, Having Slain a Giant, Came to Babylon, sentence 15
Now there was a handle which, being turned, stayed the beating of the flails.
Who acts: handle · What happens: be, turn, stay, beat · To what, where: handle, beating, flails
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 (handle), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 was | advmod |
| 2 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 3 was | expl |
| 3 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 stayed | advcl |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 handle | det |
| 5 | handle | handle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 was | nsubj |
| 6 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 turned | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 turned | punct |
| 8 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 turned | aux:pass |
| 9 | turned | turn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 handle | acl:relcl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 stayed | punct |
| 11 | stayed | stay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 beating | det |
| 13 | beating | beating | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 stayed | obj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 flails | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 flails | det |
| 16 | flails | flail | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 beating | nmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 stayed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | a handle | there | now | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | turn | gerund · passive | a handle | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 3 | stay | past | the beating of the flails | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme beating=Location | |||||
| 4 | beat | the flails | nom beating «act transitive»: of=patient |
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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