Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, The Coming of Roland, sentence 73
Straightway he held up his head, and stretched forth his neck, and ran so fast that he speedily passed all the other horses.
Who acts: Straightway · What happens: hold up, stretch, run, pass · To what, where: head, neck, other horses
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 (Straightway), 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 | Straightway | straightway | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 held | nsubj |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 held | nsubj |
| 3 | held | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | up | up | ADP | _ | 3 held | compound:prt |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 head | nmod:poss |
| 6 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 held | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 stretched | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 stretched | cc |
| 9 | stretched | stretch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 held | advcl |
| 10 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 9 stretched | advmod |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 neck | nmod:poss |
| 12 | neck | neck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 stretched | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 ran | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 ran | cc |
| 15 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 held | conj |
| 16 | so | so | ADV | _ | 17 fast | advmod |
| 17 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 15 ran | advmod |
| 18 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 21 passed | mark |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 passed | nsubj |
| 20 | speedily | speedily | ADV | _ | 21 passed | advmod |
| 21 | passed | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 ran | advcl |
| 22 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 25 horses | det:predet |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 horses | det |
| 24 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 horses | amod |
| 25 | horses | horse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 passed | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 held | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hold up | past | Straightway | straightway's head | straightway nsubj | vn support-15.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot head=Theme | |||
| 2 | stretch | participle | Straightway not said here | straightway's neck | forth property | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent neck=Patient | |||
| 3 | run | past | Straightway not said here | fast property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | pass | past | straightway | all other horses | speedily property | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme horse=Trajectory |
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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