Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, The Coming of Roland, sentence 31
When Reynaud heard it, he laughed and said: "Now shall the King see as good a race as ever was run in the world, for I will go to Paris with Bayard and win this prize." "
Who acts: Reynaud, yeoman, King · What happens: hear, laugh, say, see, run, go · To what, where: proclamation, good race, world, Paris, prize · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, The Coming of Roland. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Reynaud, yeoman, King), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 heard | advmod |
| 2 | Reynaud | Reynaud | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 heard | nsubj |
| 3 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 laughed | advcl |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 heard | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 heard | punct |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 laughed | nsubj |
| 7 | laughed | laugh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 said | cc |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 laughed | conj |
| 10 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 16 see | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 see | punct |
| 12 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 16 see | advmod |
| 13 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 see | aux |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 King | det |
| 15 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 see | nsubj |
| 16 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 said | ccomp |
| 17 | as | as | ADV | _ | 18 good | advmod |
| 18 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 race | amod |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 race | det |
| 20 | race | race | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 see | obj |
| 21 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 24 run | mark |
| 22 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 24 run | advmod |
| 23 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 run | aux:pass |
| 24 | run | run | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 see | ccomp |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 world | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 world | det |
| 27 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 run | obl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 go | punct |
| 29 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 32 go | mark |
| 30 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 32 go | nsubj |
| 31 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 32 go | aux |
| 32 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 see | conj |
| 33 | to | to | ADP | _ | 34 Paris | case |
| 34 | Paris | Paris | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 go | obl |
| 35 | with | with | ADP | _ | 36 Bayard | case |
| 36 | Bayard | Bayard | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 go | obl |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 win | cc |
| 38 | win | win | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 see | conj |
| 39 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 40 prize | det |
| 40 | prize | prize | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 win | obj |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 see | punct |
| 42 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 see | punct |
| 43 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 laughed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past | Reynaud | proclamation | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | laugh | past | yeoman | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | yeoman not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | see in a quote | shall | the King | a good race | now | tree rules | |||
| 5 | run in a quote | past · passive | the world | ever | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: in world=Trajectory | ||||
| 6 | go in a quote | future | yeoman | Paris | with Bayard | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to paris=Initial_Location | |||
| 7 | win in a quote | present | the King not said here | this prize | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prize=Eventuality |
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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