Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How It Fared With the Brethren, sentence 120
But when she came to herself she looked again and lo! there was a scar on his face that he had from a fall when he was a child.
Who acts: Duchess, Reynaud · What happens: come, look, be, have · To what, where: Duchess, scar, face, fall, child
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, 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 8 looked | cc |
| 2 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 came | advmod |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 came | nsubj |
| 4 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 looked | advcl |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 herself | case |
| 6 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 4 came | obl |
| 7 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 looked | nsubj |
| 8 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | again | again | ADV | _ | 8 looked | advmod |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 scar | cc |
| 11 | lo | lo | INTJ | _ | 14 was | discourse |
| 12 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 11 lo | punct |
| 13 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 14 was | expl |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 scar | cop |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 scar | det |
| 16 | scar | scar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 looked | conj |
| 17 | on | on | ADP | _ | 19 face | case |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 face | nmod:poss |
| 19 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 scar | nmod |
| 20 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 22 had | mark |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 had | nsubj |
| 22 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 looked | advcl |
| 23 | from | from | ADP | _ | 25 fall | case |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 fall | det |
| 25 | fall | fall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 had | obl |
| 26 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 30 child | advmod |
| 27 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 child | nsubj |
| 28 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 child | cop |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 child | det |
| 30 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 had | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | Duchess | Duchess | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to herself=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | look | past | Duchess | again | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | is a | past | Duchess not said here | a scar | Reynaud's face | tree rules | |||
| 4 | have | past | Reynaud | a fall | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | is a | past | Reynaud | a child | 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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