Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Huon, Having Slain a Giant, Came to Babylon, sentence 35
When Huon was come to the fourth chamber, he saw the giant, a most monstrous creature to behold, asleep on a bed, and cried aloud, "Rise up, thou heathen dog, or I will strike off thy head!"
Who acts: Huon, thou, I · What happens: come, see, cry, rise up, dog, strike off · To what, where: Huon, giant, head · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Huon, thou, I), 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 | 4 come | advmod |
| 2 | Huon | Huon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 come | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 come | aux:pass |
| 4 | come | come | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 saw | parataxis |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 chamber | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 chamber | det |
| 7 | fourth | fourth | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 8 chamber | amod |
| 8 | chamber | chamber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 come | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 come | punct |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 saw | nsubj |
| 11 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 giant | det |
| 13 | giant | giant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 saw | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 creature | punct |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 creature | det |
| 16 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 17 monstrous | advmod |
| 17 | monstrous | monstrous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 creature | amod |
| 18 | creature | creature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 saw | obl |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 behold | case |
| 20 | behold | behold | INTJ | _ | 18 creature | discourse |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 asleep | punct |
| 22 | asleep | asleep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 creature | acl:relcl |
| 23 | on | on | ADP | _ | 25 bed | case |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 bed | det |
| 25 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 asleep | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 cried | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 cried | cc |
| 28 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 saw | parataxis |
| 29 | aloud | aloud | ADV | _ | 28 cried | advmod |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 Rise | punct |
| 31 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 32 Rise | punct |
| 32 | Rise | rise | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 28 cried | conj |
| 33 | up | up | ADP | _ | 32 Rise | compound:prt |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 dog | punct |
| 35 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 37 dog | nsubj |
| 36 | heathen | heathen | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 dog | amod |
| 37 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 Rise | obl |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 strike | punct |
| 39 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 42 strike | cc |
| 40 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 42 strike | nsubj |
| 41 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 42 strike | aux |
| 42 | strike | strike | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 saw | conj |
| 43 | off | off | ADP | _ | 42 strike | compound:prt |
| 44 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 45 head | nmod:poss |
| 45 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 strike | obj |
| 46 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 42 strike | punct |
| 47 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 42 strike | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past · passive | Huon | to the fourth chamber | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | see | past | Huon | the giant | a monstrous creature obl | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer giant=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | cry speech: express | past | aloud property | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | rise up in a quote | infinitive | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 5 | dog in a quote | thou | tree rules | ||||||
| 6 | strike off in a quote | future | I | thy head | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=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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