Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How It Fared With the Brethren, sentence 112
Nay so black were they and foul to look upon that she was in no small fear of them, and was minded for a while to go back to her chamber.
Who acts: men, townsfolk · What happens: foul, look, be, mind, go back
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 (men, townsfolk), 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 | Nay | nay | INTJ | _ | 3 black | discourse |
| 2 | so | so | ADV | _ | 3 black | advmod |
| 3 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 foul | csubj |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 foul | aux |
| 5 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 foul | nsubj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 foul | cc |
| 7 | foul | foul | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 look | mark |
| 9 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 foul | xcomp |
| 10 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 17 fear | case |
| 11 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 upon | fixed |
| 12 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 fear | nsubj |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 fear | cop |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 fear | case |
| 15 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 17 fear | det |
| 16 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 fear | amod |
| 17 | fear | fear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 look | obl |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 them | case |
| 19 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 fear | nmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 minded | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 minded | cc |
| 22 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 minded | aux:pass |
| 23 | minded | mind | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 foul | conj |
| 24 | for | for | ADP | _ | 26 while | case |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 while | det |
| 26 | while | while | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 minded | obl |
| 27 | to | to | PART | _ | 28 go | mark |
| 28 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 minded | advcl |
| 29 | back | back | ADV | _ | 28 go | advmod |
| 30 | to | to | ADP | _ | 32 chamber | case |
| 31 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 chamber | nmod:poss |
| 32 | chamber | chamber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 go | obl |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 foul | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | foul | past | men = man | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | look | to-infinitive | men = man not said here | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | is | past | townsfolk | upon no small fear; of men = man | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | mind | past · passive | men = man not said here | while | vn care-88.1 «NP V» | ||||
| 5 | go back | to-infinitive | men = man not said here | to townsfolk's chamber result | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to chamber=Result |
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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