Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, The Coming of Roland, sentence 64
Thereat there was no small outcry, but the two knights mounted on their horses, and mingling with the crowd, so escaped.
Who acts: small outcry · What happens: be, mount, mingle, escape · To what, where: two knights
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 (small outcry), 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 | Thereat | thereat | 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 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 6 outcry | det |
| 5 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 outcry | amod |
| 6 | outcry | outcry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 was | nsubj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 knights | punct |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 knights | cc |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 knights | det |
| 10 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 knights | nummod |
| 11 | knights | knight | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 outcry | appos |
| 12 | mounted | mount | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 knights | acl |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 15 horses | case |
| 14 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 horses | nmod:poss |
| 15 | horses | horse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 mounted | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 escaped | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 escaped | cc |
| 18 | mingling | mingle | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 24 escaped | nsubj:pass |
| 19 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 crowd | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 crowd | det |
| 21 | crowd | crowd | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 mingling | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 escaped | punct |
| 23 | so | so | ADV | _ | 24 escaped | advmod |
| 24 | escaped | escape | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 was | conj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 was | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | no small outcry | there | thereat property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | mount | participle | the two knights not said here | on Reynaud's horses | vn put-9.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent on horse=Destination | ||||
| 3 | mingle | gerund | with the crowd | vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V PP.co-patient»: agent=Patient with crowd=Co-Patient | |||||
| 4 | escape | participle · passive | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Initial_Location |
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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