Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How It Fared With the Brethren, sentence 119
And the Duchess looking on him more closely was not a little troubled, so that she had almost fallen to the ground in a swoon.
Who acts: Duchess · What happens: look, not be, fall · To what, where: swoon
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 (Duchess), 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 | _ | 4 looking | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Duchess | det |
| 3 | Duchess | Duchess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 looking | nsubj |
| 4 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 him | case |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 looking | obl |
| 7 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 8 closely | advmod |
| 8 | closely | closely | ADV | _ | 13 troubled | advmod |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 troubled | cop |
| 10 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 troubled | advmod |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 little | det |
| 12 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 troubled | obl:unmarked |
| 13 | troubled | troubled | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 looking | advcl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 fallen | punct |
| 15 | so | so | ADV | _ | 20 fallen | advmod |
| 16 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 20 fallen | mark |
| 17 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 fallen | nsubj |
| 18 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 fallen | aux |
| 19 | almost | almost | ADV | _ | 20 fallen | advmod |
| 20 | fallen | fall | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 looking | conj |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 ground | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 ground | det |
| 23 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 fallen | obl |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 swoon | case |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 swoon | det |
| 26 | swoon | swoon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 fallen | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 looking | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | gerund | the Duchess | on Reynaud | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent on he=Theme | ||||
| 2 | not is | past | the Duchess not said here | a little obl:unmarked; closely, troubled property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | fall | past · perfect | Duchess | a swoon | to the ground; almost property | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in swoon=Location |
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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