Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How It Fared With the Brethren, sentence 32
Now it chanced that Reynaud's three brothers were returning from the hunt when they saw the King's host. "
Who acts: castle, three brothers, brothers · What happens: chance, return, see · To what, where: hunt, host
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 (castle, three brothers, brothers), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 chanced | advmod |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 chanced | nsubj |
| 3 | chanced | chance | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 returning | mark |
| 5 | Reynaud | Reynaud | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 brothers | nmod:poss |
| 6 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 5 Reynaud | case |
| 7 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 brothers | nummod |
| 8 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 returning | nsubj |
| 9 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 returning | aux |
| 10 | returning | return | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 chanced | ccomp |
| 11 | from | from | ADP | _ | 13 hunt | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 hunt | det |
| 13 | hunt | hunt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 returning | obl |
| 14 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 16 saw | advmod |
| 15 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 saw | nsubj |
| 16 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 returning | advcl |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 King | det |
| 18 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 host | nmod:poss |
| 19 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 18 King | case |
| 20 | host | host | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 saw | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 chanced | punct |
| 22 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 chanced | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | chance | past | castle | now | vn risk-94-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||
| 2 | return | past · progressive | Reynaud's three brothers | the hunt | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from hunt=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | see | past | brothers = brother | the King's host | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer host=Stimulus |
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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