Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How It Fared With the Brethren, sentence 125
So the Duchess and her sons went to the table, and sat down and made good cheer.
Who acts: Duchess · What happens: go, sit down, make · To what, where: table, good cheer
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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 7 went | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Duchess | det |
| 3 | Duchess | Duchess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 went | nsubj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 sons | cc |
| 5 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 sons | nmod:poss |
| 6 | sons | son | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 Duchess | conj |
| 7 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 table | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 table | det |
| 10 | table | table | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 went | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 sat | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 sat | cc |
| 13 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 went | parataxis |
| 14 | down | down | ADP | _ | 13 sat | compound:prt |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 made | cc |
| 16 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 sat | conj |
| 17 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 cheer | amod |
| 18 | cheer | cheer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 made | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | the Duchess and Duchess's sons | the table | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to table=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | sit down | past | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | make | participle | good cheer | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset cheer=Product |
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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