Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How It Fared With the Brethren, sentence 64
And so for a while the matter stood; neither could the King win the castle, nor could the brethren go free.
Who acts: matter, King, brethren · What happens: stand, win, go · To what, where: castle
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 (matter, King, brethren), 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 stood | cc |
| 2 | so | so | ADV | _ | 8 stood | advmod |
| 3 | for | for | ADP | _ | 5 while | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 while | det |
| 5 | while | while | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 stood | obl |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 matter | det |
| 7 | matter | matter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 stood | nsubj |
| 8 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 win | punct |
| 10 | neither | neither | ADV | _ | 14 win | advmod |
| 11 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 win | aux |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 King | det |
| 13 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 win | nsubj |
| 14 | win | win | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 stood | parataxis |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 castle | det |
| 16 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 win | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 go | punct |
| 18 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 22 go | cc |
| 19 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 go | aux |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 brethren | det |
| 21 | brethren | brethren | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 go | nsubj |
| 22 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 win | conj |
| 23 | free | free | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 go | xcomp |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past | the matter | while | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | win | could | the King | the castle | neither property | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent castle=Eventuality | |||
| 3 | go | could | the brethren | free property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «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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