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Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the Treachery of King John, sentence 54

When King John had received the letter with the mantles, he commanded a hundred knights to make themselves ready to ride with him to the Castle of Montalban.

Who acts: John, King, knights · What happens: receive, command, make, ride · To what, where: letter, hundred knights, knights, Castle · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Of the Treachery of King John. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (John, King, knights), 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

marknmod:descnsubjauxadvcldetobjcasedetnmodpunctnsubjdetnummodobjmarkadvclobjxcompmarkxcompcaseoblcasedetoblcasenmodpunctrootWhenSCONJKingPROPNJohnPROPNhadAUXreceivedVERBtheDETletterNOUNwithADPtheDETmantlesNOUN,PUNCThePRONcommandedVERBaDEThundredNUMknightsNOUNtoPARTmakeVERBthemselvesPRONreadyADJtoPARTrideVERBwithADPhimPRONtoADPtheDETCastlePROPNofADPMontalbanPROPN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1WhenwhenSCONJ_5 receivedmark
2KingKingPROPNNumber=Sing3 Johnnmod:desc
3JohnJohnPROPNNumber=Sing5 receivednsubj
4hadhaveAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin5 receivedaux
5receivedreceiveVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part13 commandedadvcl
6thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art7 letterdet
7letterletterNOUNNumber=Sing5 receivedobj
8withwithADP_10 mantlescase
9thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art10 mantlesdet
10mantlesmantleNOUNNumber=Plur7 letternmod
11,,PUNCT_5 receivedpunct
12hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs13 commandednsubj
13commandedcommandVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
14aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art15 hundreddet
15hundredhundredNUMNumForm=Word NumType=Card16 knightsnummod
16knightsknightNOUNNumber=Plur13 commandedobj
17totoPART_18 makemark
18makemakeVERBVerbForm=Inf13 commandedadvcl
19themselvesthemselvesPRONCase=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes18 makeobj
20readyreadyADJDegree=Pos18 makexcomp
21totoPART_22 ridemark
22riderideVERBVerbForm=Inf20 readyxcomp
23withwithADP_24 himcase
24himhePRONCase=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs22 rideobl
25totoADP_27 Castlecase
26thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art27 Castledet
27CastleCastlePROPNNumber=Sing22 rideobl
28ofofADP_29 Montalbancase
29MontalbanMontalbanPROPNNumber=Sing27 Castlenmod
30..PUNCT_13 commandedpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1receivepast · perfectJohn Kingthe letterwith the mantlesvn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent letter=Theme
2commandpastKinghundred knightsvn supervision-95.2.2-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent knight=Theme
3maketo-infinitiveKing not said hereknights = knightready propertyvn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset themselves=Product
4rideto-infinitiveknights = knight not said herethe Castle of Montalbanwith Kingvn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent to castle=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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