Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Huon Returned, His Errand Fulfilled, sentence 47
And when he had so spoken, he reached out his hand, and dragged the Admiral from his seat so rudely that the crown upon his head fell to the ground.
Who acts: villain, crown · What happens: speak, reach out, drag, fall · To what, where: hand, Admiral, seat · 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 (villain, crown), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 reached | cc |
| 2 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 6 spoken | advmod |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 spoken | nsubj |
| 4 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 spoken | aux |
| 5 | so | so | ADV | _ | 6 spoken | advmod |
| 6 | spoken | speak | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 9 reached | advcl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 spoken | punct |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 reached | nsubj |
| 9 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | out | out | ADP | _ | 9 reached | compound:prt |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 hand | nmod:poss |
| 12 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 reached | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 dragged | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 dragged | cc |
| 15 | dragged | drag | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 reached | conj |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 Admiral | det |
| 17 | Admiral | admiral | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 dragged | obj |
| 18 | from | from | ADP | _ | 20 seat | case |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 seat | nmod:poss |
| 20 | seat | seat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 dragged | obl |
| 21 | so | so | ADV | _ | 22 rudely | advmod |
| 22 | rudely | rudely | ADV | _ | 15 dragged | advmod |
| 23 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 29 fell | mark |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 crown | det |
| 25 | crown | crown | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 fell | nsubj |
| 26 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 28 head | case |
| 27 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 head | nmod:poss |
| 28 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 crown | nmod |
| 29 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 dragged | advcl |
| 30 | to | to | ADP | _ | 32 ground | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 ground | det |
| 32 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 fell | obl |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 reached | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | speak speech: other | past · perfect | villain | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | reach out | past | villain | villain's hand | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent hand=Theme | ||||
| 3 | drag | past | villain not said here | the Admiral | villain's seat | rudely property | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent admiral=Theme from seat=Initial_Location | ||
| 4 | fall | past | the crown upon villain's head | to the ground | vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to ground=Theme |
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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