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Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Huon, Having Slain a Giant, Came to Babylon, sentence 52

The giant turned to flee, but the Lady Sybil, for she had come desiring to save the Christian knight, threw a staff between his legs so that he fell headlong to the earth: when Huon saw him lie thus, he smote off his head with one stroke of his sword.

Who acts: giant, Sybil, Lady Sybil, Huon, knight · What happens: turn, flee, come, desire, save, throw · To what, where: Christian knight, staff, legs, knight, head, sword

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 (giant, Sybil, Lady Sybil, 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

detnsubjmarkxcomppunctccdetcompoundnsubjpunctmarknsubjauxparataxisxcompmarkxcompdetamodobjpunctconjdetobjcasenmod:possnmodmarkfixednsubjadvclxcompcasedetoblpunctadvmodnsubjparataxisobjxcompadvmodpunctnsubjconjcompound:prtnmod:possobjcasenummodoblcasenmod:possnmodpunctrootTheDETgiantNOUNturnedVERBtoPARTfleeVERB,PUNCTbutCCONJtheDETLadyPROPNSybilPROPN,PUNCTforSCONJshePRONhadAUXcomeVERBdesiringVERBtoPARTsaveVERBtheDETChristianADJknightNOUN,PUNCTthrewVERBaDETstaffNOUNbetweenADPhisPRONlegsNOUNsoSCONJthatSCONJhePRONfellVERBheadlongADJtoADPtheDETearthNOUN:PUNCTwhenADVHuonPROPNsawVERBhimPRONlieVERBthusADV,PUNCThePRONsmoteVERBoffADPhisPRONheadNOUNwithADPoneNUMstrokeNOUNofADPhisPRONswordNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1ThetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art2 giantdet
2giantgiantNOUNNumber=Sing3 turnednsubj
3turnedturnVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
4totoPART_5 fleemark
5fleefleeVERBVerbForm=Inf3 turnedxcomp
6,,PUNCT_23 threwpunct
7butbutCCONJ_23 threwcc
8thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art10 Sybildet
9LadyLadyPROPNNumber=Sing10 Sybilcompound
10SybilSybilPROPNNumber=Sing23 threwnsubj
11,,PUNCT_15 comepunct
12forforSCONJ_15 comemark
13sheshePRONCase=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs15 comensubj
14hadhaveAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin15 comeaux
15comecomeVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part10 Sybilparataxis
16desiringdesireVERBVerbForm=Ger15 comexcomp
17totoPART_18 savemark
18savesaveVERBVerbForm=Inf16 desiringxcomp
19thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art21 knightdet
20ChristianChristianADJDegree=Pos21 knightamod
21knightknightNOUNNumber=Sing18 saveobj
22,,PUNCT_10 Sybilpunct
23threwthrowVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin3 turnedconj
24aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art25 staffdet
25staffstaffNOUNNumber=Sing23 threwobj
26betweenbetweenADP_28 legscase
27hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs28 legsnmod:poss
28legslegNOUNNumber=Plur25 staffnmod
29sosoSCONJExtPos=SCONJ32 fellmark
30thatthatSCONJ_29 sofixed
31hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs32 fellnsubj
32fellfallVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin23 threwadvcl
33headlongheadlongADJDegree=Pos32 fellxcomp
34totoADP_36 earthcase
35thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art36 earthdet
36earthearthNOUNNumber=Sing33 headlongobl
37::PUNCT_40 sawpunct
38whenwhenADVPronType=Int40 sawadvmod
39HuonHuonPROPNNumber=Sing40 sawnsubj
40sawseeVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin3 turnedparataxis
41himhePRONCase=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs40 sawobj
42lielieVERBVerbForm=Inf40 sawxcomp
43thusthusADV_42 lieadvmod
44,,PUNCT_46 smotepunct
45hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs46 smotensubj
46smotesmiteVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin40 sawconj
47offoffADP_46 smotecompound:prt
48hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs49 headnmod:poss
49headheadNOUNNumber=Sing46 smoteobj
50withwithADP_52 strokecase
51oneoneNUMNumForm=Word NumType=Card52 strokenummod
52strokestrokeNOUNNumber=Sing46 smoteobl
53ofofADP_55 swordcase
54hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs55 swordnmod:poss
55swordswordNOUNNumber=Sing52 strokenmod
56..PUNCT_3 turnedpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1turnpastthe gianttree rules
2fleeto-infinitivethe giant not said herevn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3comepast · perfectSybiltree rules
4desiregerundSybil not said herevn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
5save not said to happento-infinitiveSybil not said herethe Christian knightvn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent knight=Theme
6throwpastthe Lady Sybila staffHuon's legsvn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent staff=Theme between leg=Destination
7fallpastHuonheadlong propertyvn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8seepastHuonknighttree rules
9lieinfinitiveknight not said herethus propertyvn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
10smite offpastHuonHuon's headwith one stroke of Huon's swordvn hit-18.1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent head=Patient with stroke=Instrument
11strokeHuon's swordnom stroke «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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