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Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Huon, Having Slain a Giant, Came to Babylon, sentence 81

And when the Admiral's lords came to him, he took no heed of them, but walked straight forward, and they feared to lay hands on him.

Who acts: lords, lord, men · What happens: come, take, walk, fear, lay, heed · To what, where: King, heed, hands, men

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 (lords, lord, men), 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

ccadvmoddetnmod:posscasensubjadvclcaseoblpunctnsubjdetobjcasenmodpunctccconjadvmodadvmodpunctccnsubjconjmarkxcompobjcaseoblpunctrootAndCCONJwhenADVtheDETAdmiralPROPN'sPARTlordsNOUNcameVERBtoADPhimPRON,PUNCThePRONtookVERBnoDETheedNOUNofADPthemPRON,PUNCTbutCCONJwalkedVERBstraightADVforwardADV,PUNCTandCCONJtheyPRONfearedVERBtoPARTlayVERBhandsNOUNonADPhimPRON.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1AndandCCONJ_12 tookcc
2whenwhenADVPronType=Int7 cameadvmod
3thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art4 Admiraldet
4AdmiralAdmiralPROPNNumber=Sing6 lordsnmod:poss
5's'sPART_4 Admiralcase
6lordslordNOUNNumber=Plur7 camensubj
7camecomeVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin12 tookadvcl
8totoADP_9 himcase
9himhePRONCase=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs7 cameobl
10,,PUNCT_7 camepunct
11hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs12 tooknsubj
12tooktakeVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
13nonoDETPronType=Neg14 heeddet
14heedheedNOUNNumber=Sing12 tookobj
15ofofADP_16 themcase
16themtheyPRONCase=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs14 heednmod
17,,PUNCT_19 walkedpunct
18butbutCCONJ_19 walkedcc
19walkedwalkVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin12 tookconj
20straightstraightADV_21 forwardadvmod
21forwardforwardADV_19 walkedadvmod
22,,PUNCT_25 fearedpunct
23andandCCONJ_25 fearedcc
24theytheyPRONCase=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs25 fearednsubj
25fearedfearVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin12 tookconj
26totoPART_27 laymark
27laylayVERBVerbForm=Inf25 fearedxcomp
28handshandNOUNNumber=Plur27 layobj
29ononADP_30 himcase
30himhePRONCase=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs27 layobl
31..PUNCT_12 tookpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1comepastthe Admiral's lordsKingvn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to he=Initial_Location
2takepastlordno heed of menvn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heed=Theme
3walkpastlord not said hereforward propertyvn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4fearpastmen = manvn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
5layto-infinitivemen = man not said herehandson Kingvn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent hand=Theme on he=Destination
6heedmen = mannom heed «cognition 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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