Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Huon Returned, His Errand Fulfilled, sentence 80

But the two leapt lightly to their feet, and next the giant would have stricken Huon with a great blow, but Huon leapt lightly to one side so that the giant missed his stroke.

Who acts: two, Huon, giant · What happens: leapt, have, miss, stroke · To what, where: stricken Huon, stroke

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 (two, Huon, giant), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	4 leapt	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 two	det
3	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 leapt	nsubj
4	leapt	leapt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	lightly	lightly	ADV	_	4 leapt	advmod
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 feet	case
7	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 feet	nmod:poss
8	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 leapt	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 have	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 have	cc
11	next	next	ADP	_	13 giant	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 giant	det
13	giant	giant	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 have	obl
14	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 have	aux
15	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 leapt	conj
16	stricken	stricken	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 Huon	amod
17	Huon	Huon	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 have	obj
18	with	with	ADP	_	21 blow	case
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 blow	det
20	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 blow	amod
21	blow	blow	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 have	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 leapt	punct
23	but	but	CCONJ	_	25 leapt	cc
24	Huon	Huon	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 leapt	nsubj
25	leapt	leapt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 leapt	conj
26	lightly	lightly	ADV	_	25 leapt	advmod
27	to	to	ADP	_	29 side	case
28	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	29 side	nummod
29	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 leapt	obl
30	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	34 missed	mark
31	that	that	SCONJ	_	30 so	fixed
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 giant	det
33	giant	giant	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 missed	nsubj
34	missed	miss	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 leapt	advcl
35	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 stroke	nmod:poss
36	stroke	stroke	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 missed	obj
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 leapt	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	leapt	present	the two		to spears's feet; lightly property	tree rules
2	have	would	the two not said here	stricken Huon	next the giant; with a great blow	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent huon=Patient
3	leapt	present	Huon		to one side; lightly property	tree rules
4	miss	past	the giant	Huon's stroke		vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer stroke=Stimulus
5	stroke		Huon			nom stroke «act transitive»: poss=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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Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Huon Returned, His Errand Fulfilled, sentence 80