Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Huon Returned, His Errand Fulfilled, sentence 35
Now the prison was so dark that Huon could not by any means discover who they might be that had thus been brought into his company.
Who acts: prison, Huon · What happens: be, not mean, discover, bring · To what, where: company · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (prison, 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 dark | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 prison | det |
| 3 | prison | prison | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 dark | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 dark | cop |
| 5 | so | so | ADV | _ | 6 dark | advmod |
| 6 | dark | dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 13 means | mark |
| 8 | Huon | Huon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 means | nsubj |
| 9 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 means | aux |
| 10 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 means | advmod |
| 11 | by | by | ADP | _ | 12 any | case |
| 12 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 13 means | obl |
| 13 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 dark | advcl |
| 14 | discover | discover | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 means | ccomp |
| 15 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 brought | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 brought | nsubj:pass |
| 17 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 brought | aux |
| 18 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 23 brought | aux:pass |
| 19 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 brought | nsubj:pass |
| 20 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 brought | aux |
| 21 | thus | thus | ADV | _ | 23 brought | advmod |
| 22 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 23 brought | aux:pass |
| 23 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 discover | parataxis |
| 24 | into | into | ADP | _ | 26 company | case |
| 25 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 company | nmod:poss |
| 26 | company | company | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 brought | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 dark | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the prison | now | dark property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | not mean | could | Huon | by any | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | discover | infinitive | vn discover-84-1 «NP V PP.topic S_ING»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | bring | might · perfect · passive | Huon's company | who nsubj:pass; words = word nsubj:pass; that nsubj:pass; thus property | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme into company=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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