Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, The Coming of Roland, sentence 74
When the King saw this he said to Richard of Normandy, "This white horse is marvellously swift, and he is like to Bayard, the horse of Reynaud, son of Aymon."
Who acts: King, white horse, horse · What happens: see, say, be · To what, where: this, Richard · 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 (King, white horse, horse), 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 | 4 saw | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 King | det |
| 3 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 saw | nsubj |
| 4 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 said | advcl |
| 5 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 saw | obj |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 said | nsubj |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 Richard | case |
| 9 | Richard | Richard | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 said | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 Normandy | case |
| 11 | Normandy | Normandy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Richard | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 swift | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 swift | punct |
| 14 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 16 horse | det |
| 15 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 horse | amod |
| 16 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 swift | nsubj |
| 17 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 swift | cop |
| 18 | marvellously | marvellously | ADV | _ | 19 swift | advmod |
| 19 | swift | swift | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 said | ccomp |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 Bayard | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 Bayard | cc |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 Bayard | nsubj |
| 23 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 Bayard | cop |
| 24 | like | like | ADP | _ | 26 Bayard | case |
| 25 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 Bayard | case |
| 26 | Bayard | Bayard | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 swift | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 horse | punct |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 horse | det |
| 29 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 Bayard | appos |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 Reynaud | case |
| 31 | Reynaud | Reynaud | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 horse | nmod |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 son | punct |
| 33 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 Bayard | appos |
| 34 | of | of | ADP | _ | 35 Aymon | case |
| 35 | Aymon | Aymon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 son | nmod |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 swift | punct |
| 37 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 swift | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | the King | this | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer this=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | King | Richard of Normandy | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to richard=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | is in a quote | present | this white horse | marvellously, swift property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | is in a quote | present | horse | like Bayard; son of Aymon appos | 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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