Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Huon, Having Slain a Giant, Came to Babylon, sentence 18
Also she heard the breathing of the giant, as of one in deep sleep.
Who acts: handle · What happens: hear · To what, where: breathing
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 | Also | also | ADV | _ | 3 heard | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 heard | nsubj |
| 3 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 breathing | det |
| 5 | breathing | breathing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 heard | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 giant | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 giant | det |
| 8 | giant | giant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 breathing | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 one | punct |
| 10 | as | as | ADP | ExtPos=ADP | 12 one | case |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 as | fixed |
| 12 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 heard | conj |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 sleep | case |
| 14 | deep | deep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 sleep | amod |
| 15 | sleep | sleep | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 one | nmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 heard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past | handle | the breathing of the giant | one in deep sleep conj | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer breathing=Stimulus |
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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