Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How It Fared With the Brethren, sentence 140
And when they had bathed, she gave them rich apparel of all that they needed.
Who acts: sons, Duchess · What happens: bath, give, need · To what, where: rich apparel, sons
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 (sons, 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 | _ | 8 gave | cc |
| 2 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 bathed | advmod |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 bathed | nsubj |
| 4 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 bathed | aux |
| 5 | bathed | bath | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 8 gave | advcl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 bathed | punct |
| 7 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 gave | nsubj |
| 8 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 gave | iobj |
| 10 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 apparel | amod |
| 11 | apparel | apparel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 gave | obj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 that | case |
| 13 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 14 that | det:predet |
| 14 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 needed | obl |
| 15 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 needed | nsubj |
| 16 | needed | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 apparel | acl:relcl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bath | past · perfect | sons = son | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | give | past | Duchess | rich apparel | sons = son | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient apparel=Theme | |||
| 3 | need | past | sons = son | of rich apparel | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot |
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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