Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How It Fared With the Brethren, sentence 38
Thereafter there was a fierce battle, and it went hard with the King's vanguard, so that scarce one of them escaped.
Who acts: fierce battle, battle, scarce one · What happens: be, go, escape
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 (fierce battle, battle, scarce one), 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 | Thereafter | thereafter | ADV | _ | 3 was | advmod |
| 2 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 3 was | expl |
| 3 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 battle | det |
| 5 | fierce | fierce | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 battle | amod |
| 6 | battle | battle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 was | nsubj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 went | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 went | cc |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 went | nsubj |
| 10 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 was | parataxis |
| 11 | hard | hard | ADV | Degree=Pos | 10 went | advmod |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 vanguard | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 King | det |
| 14 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 vanguard | nmod:poss |
| 15 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 14 King | case |
| 16 | vanguard | vanguard | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 went | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 escaped | punct |
| 18 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 24 escaped | mark |
| 19 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 18 so | fixed |
| 20 | scarce | scarce | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 one | amod |
| 21 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 escaped | nsubj |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 them | case |
| 23 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 one | nmod |
| 24 | escaped | escape | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 went | conj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 was | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | a fierce battle | there | thereafter property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | go | past | battle | with the King's vanguard; hard property | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with vanguard=Beneficiary | ||||
| 3 | escape | past | scarce one of men | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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