Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Huon, Having Slain a Giant, Came to Babylon, sentence 51
When Huon saw what had befallen, he smote the giant and struck off both his hands.
Who acts: Huon · What happens: see, befall, smite, strike off · To what, where: giant struck hands · 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), 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 saw | advmod |
| 2 | Huon | Huon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 saw | nsubj |
| 3 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 smote | advcl |
| 4 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 6 befallen | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 befallen | aux |
| 6 | befallen | befall | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 saw | ccomp |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 saw | punct |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 smote | nsubj |
| 9 | smote | smite | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 hands | det |
| 11 | giant | giant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 hands | amod |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 struck | cc |
| 13 | struck | strike | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 hands | amod |
| 14 | off | off | ADP | _ | 13 struck | compound:prt |
| 15 | both | both | CCONJ | _ | 17 hands | cc:preconj |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 hands | nmod:poss |
| 17 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 smote | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 smote | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | Huon | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | befall | past · perfect · passive | what nsubj:pass | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | smite | past | Huon | Huon's giant struck hands | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus hand=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | strike off | participle | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=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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