Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Huon, Having Slain a Giant, Came to Babylon, sentence 54
Then the Lady Sybil turned the handle as before, so that the flails were stayed and they entered the tower.
Who acts: Lady Sybil, comrades · What happens: turn, stay, enter · To what, where: handle, flails, tower
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 (Lady Sybil, comrades), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 turned | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Sybil | det |
| 3 | Lady | Lady | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Sybil | compound |
| 4 | Sybil | Sybil | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 turned | nsubj |
| 5 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 handle | det |
| 7 | handle | handle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 turned | obj |
| 8 | as | as | ADP | _ | 9 before | case |
| 9 | before | before | ADV | _ | 5 turned | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 stayed | punct |
| 11 | so | so | ADV | _ | 16 stayed | advmod |
| 12 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 16 stayed | mark |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 flails | det |
| 14 | flails | flail | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 stayed | nsubj |
| 15 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 stayed | aux:pass |
| 16 | stayed | stay | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 turned | conj |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 entered | cc |
| 18 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 entered | nsubj |
| 19 | entered | enter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 stayed | conj |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 tower | det |
| 21 | tower | tower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 entered | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 turned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn | past | the Lady Sybil | the handle | then | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent handle=Theme | |||
| 2 | stay | past · passive | the flails | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: subject=Location | |||||
| 3 | enter | past | comrades = comrade | the tower | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme tower=Destination |
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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