Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Huon Returned, His Errand Fulfilled, sentence 58
And when Huon was set before him, it could be seen that he was in good case, though somewhat pale because of being shut up. "
Who acts: Huon · What happens: set, see, be, shut up · To what, where: Huon, company, good case
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 (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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 set | cc |
| 2 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 set | advmod |
| 3 | Huon | Huon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 set | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 set | aux:pass |
| 5 | set | set | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | before | before | ADP | _ | 7 him | case |
| 7 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 set | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 seen | punct |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 seen | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 seen | aux |
| 11 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 12 seen | aux:pass |
| 12 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 set | conj |
| 13 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 18 case | mark |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 case | nsubj |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 case | cop |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 case | case |
| 17 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 case | amod |
| 18 | case | case | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 seen | advcl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 pale | punct |
| 20 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 22 pale | mark |
| 21 | somewhat | somewhat | ADV | _ | 22 pale | advmod |
| 22 | pale | pale | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 seen | conj |
| 23 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 26 shut | mark |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 because | fixed |
| 25 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 26 shut | aux:pass |
| 26 | shut | shut | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 pale | advcl |
| 27 | up | up | ADP | _ | 26 shut | compound:prt |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 set | punct |
| 29 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 set | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | set | past · passive | Huon | before Admiral | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme before he=Destination | ||||
| 2 | see | could · passive | company | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | is | past | Huon | good case | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | shut up | gerund · passive | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP» |
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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