Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How It Fared With the Brethren, sentence 11
After these things the whole company went to the Church to hear mass; and after mass they sat down to dinner, but Reynaud would not sit down, so angry was he.
Who acts: whole company, company, Reynaud · What happens: go, hear, sit down, not sit down, be · To what, where: Church, mass, boy
This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How It Fared With the Brethren. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (whole company, company, Reynaud), 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 | After | after | ADP | _ | 3 things | case |
| 2 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 3 things | det |
| 3 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 went | obl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 company | det |
| 5 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 company | amod |
| 6 | company | company | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 went | nsubj |
| 7 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 Church | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Church | det |
| 10 | Church | Church | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 went | obl |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 hear | mark |
| 12 | hear | hear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 went | advcl |
| 13 | mass | mass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 hear | obj |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 sat | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 sat | cc |
| 16 | after | after | ADP | _ | 17 mass | case |
| 17 | mass | mass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 sat | obl |
| 18 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 sat | nsubj |
| 19 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 went | conj |
| 20 | down | down | ADP | _ | 19 sat | compound:prt |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 dinner | case |
| 22 | dinner | dinner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 sat | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 sit | punct |
| 24 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 28 sit | cc |
| 25 | Reynaud | Reynaud | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 sit | nsubj |
| 26 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 28 sit | aux |
| 27 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 28 sit | advmod |
| 28 | sit | sit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 sat | parataxis |
| 29 | down | down | ADP | _ | 28 sit | compound:prt |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 angry | punct |
| 31 | so | so | ADV | _ | 32 angry | advmod |
| 32 | angry | angry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 sit | conj |
| 33 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 34 he | cop |
| 34 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 angry | obl |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | the whole company | the Church | after this things | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to church=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | hear | to-infinitive | the whole company not said here | mass | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer mass=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | sit down | past | company | after mass | to dinner | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 4 | not sit down | would | Reynaud | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | is a | past | boy | tree rules |
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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