Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How It Fared With the Brethren, sentence 96
A wonderful beast was he in this as in other things, being as well nourished by roots as other horses are wont to be by hay and corn.
Who acts: wonderful beast, roots, other horses · What happens: be, nourish · To what, where: King, this, other things
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 (wonderful beast, roots, other horses), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 beast | det |
| 2 | wonderful | wonderful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 beast | amod |
| 3 | beast | beast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 he | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 he | cop |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | root | root |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 this | case |
| 7 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 he | obl |
| 8 | as | as | ADP | _ | 11 things | case |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 things | case |
| 10 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 things | amod |
| 11 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 he | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 nourished | punct |
| 13 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 16 nourished | aux:pass |
| 14 | as | as | ADV | ExtPos=CCONJ | 16 nourished | cc |
| 15 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 14 as | fixed |
| 16 | nourished | nourish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 things | acl:relcl |
| 17 | by | by | ADP | _ | 18 roots | case |
| 18 | roots | root | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 nourished | obl |
| 19 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 23 wont | mark |
| 20 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 horses | amod |
| 21 | horses | horse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 wont | nsubj |
| 22 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 wont | cop |
| 23 | wont | wont | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 nourished | advcl |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 27 hay | mark |
| 25 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 27 hay | cop |
| 26 | by | by | ADP | _ | 27 hay | case |
| 27 | hay | hay | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 wont | ccomp |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 corn | cc |
| 29 | corn | corn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 hay | conj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 he | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | a wonderful beast | King | this | as other things | tree rules | ||
| 2 | nourish | gerund · passive | roots | other things not said here | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | is | present | other horses | wont property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | is | to-infinitive | other horses not said here | by hay and corn; corn conj | tree rules |
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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