Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Huon Returned, His Errand Fulfilled, sentence 127
His eyes were large and piercing, his hair and beard long.
Who acts: eyes · What happens: be, pierce, beard
This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How Huon Returned, His Errand Fulfilled. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (eyes), 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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 2 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 large | nsubj |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 large | cop |
| 4 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 piercing | cc |
| 6 | piercing | pierce | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 large | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 hair | punct |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 hair | nmod:poss |
| 9 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 large | conj |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 beard | cc |
| 11 | beard | beard | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 large | conj |
| 12 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 11 beard | advmod |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 large | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | chamber's eyes | chamber's hair conj; large property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | pierce | gerund | chamber's eyes not said here | vn poke-19-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | beard | present | chamber's eyes not said here | long property | vn pit-10.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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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