Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, The Coming of Roland, sentence 35
And he took another herb that he knew and therewith caused Reynaud to look like a youth of twenty years.
Who acts: Mawgis, Reynaud · What happens: take, know, cause, look · To what, where: herb, Reynaud
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 (Mawgis, Reynaud), 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 | _ | 3 took | cc |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 took | nsubj |
| 3 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 5 herb | det |
| 5 | herb | herb | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 took | obj |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 knew | mark |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 knew | nsubj |
| 8 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | advcl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 caused | cc |
| 10 | therewith | therewith | ADV | _ | 11 caused | advmod |
| 11 | caused | cause | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | conj |
| 12 | Reynaud | Reynaud | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 caused | obj |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 look | mark |
| 14 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 caused | xcomp |
| 15 | like | like | ADP | _ | 17 youth | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 youth | det |
| 17 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 look | obl |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 years | case |
| 19 | twenty | twenty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 20 years | nummod |
| 20 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 youth | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | Mawgis | another herb | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent herb=Theme | ||||
| 2 | know | past | Mawgis | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | cause | past | Mawgis not said here | Reynaud | therewith property | tree rules | |||
| 4 | look | to-infinitive | Reynaud not said here | like a youth of twenty years | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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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