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Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, The Coming of Roland, sentence 9

It befell that King Charles, going on a pilgrimage, saw this same hill with the castle built upon it, and much admiring, would know who dwelt there.

Who acts: castle, much admiring · What happens: befall, go, see, build, know, dwell · To what, where: Charles, pilgrimage, same hill, castle · 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 (castle, much admiring), 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

nsubjmarknmod:descoblpunctadvclcasedetoblpunctparataxisdetamodobjcasedetnmodaclcaseoblpunctccamodnsubjpunctauxconjnsubjccompadvmodpunctrootItPRONbefellVERBthatSCONJKingPROPNCharlesPROPN,PUNCTgoingVERBonADPaDETpilgrimageNOUN,PUNCTsawVERBthisDETsameADJhillNOUNwithADPtheDETcastleNOUNbuiltVERBuponADPitPRON,PUNCTandCCONJmuchADJadmiringNOUN,PUNCTwouldAUXknowVERBwhoPRONdweltVERBthereADV.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1ItitPRONCase=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs2 befellnsubj
2befellbefallVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
3thatthatSCONJ_5 Charlesmark
4KingKingPROPNNumber=Sing5 Charlesnmod:desc
5CharlesCharlesPROPNNumber=Sing2 befellobl
6,,PUNCT_7 goingpunct
7goinggoVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part2 befelladvcl
8ononADP_10 pilgrimagecase
9aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art10 pilgrimagedet
10pilgrimagepilgrimageNOUNNumber=Sing7 goingobl
11,,PUNCT_12 sawpunct
12sawseeVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin2 befellparataxis
13thisthisDETNumber=Sing PronType=Dem15 hilldet
14samesameADJDegree=Pos15 hillamod
15hillhillNOUNNumber=Sing12 sawobj
16withwithADP_18 castlecase
17thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art18 castledet
18castlecastleNOUNNumber=Sing15 hillnmod
19builtbuildVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass18 castleacl
20uponuponADP_21 itcase
21ititPRONCase=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs19 builtobl
22,,PUNCT_28 knowpunct
23andandCCONJ_28 knowcc
24muchmuchADJDegree=Pos25 admiringamod
25admiringadmiringNOUNNumber=Sing28 knownsubj
26,,PUNCT_25 admiringpunct
27wouldwouldAUXVerbForm=Fin28 knowaux
28knowknowVERBVerbForm=Inf12 sawconj
29whowhoPRONPronType=Rel30 dweltnsubj
30dweltdwellVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin28 knowccomp
31therethereADVPronType=Dem30 dweltadvmod
32..PUNCT_2 befellpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1befallpastcastleCharles Kingvn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2gogerundcastle not said herea pilgrimagevn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on pilgrimage=Location
3seepastthis same hillwith the castlevn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer hill=Stimulus
4buildparticiplethe castle not said hereupon castlevn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
5knowwouldmuch admiringvn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
6dwellpasttherewho nsubjvn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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