Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the Treachery of King John, sentence 70

So the four went their way to Vancouleurs, not without fears, for Reynaud himself doubted to what the matter might grow.

Who acts: four, Reynaud, matter · What happens: go, doubt, grow · To what, where: way, Vancouleurs

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 (four, Reynaud, matter), 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	So	so	ADV	_	4 went	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 four	det
3	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 went	nsubj
4	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 way	nmod:poss
6	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 went	obj
7	to	to	ADP	_	8 Vancouleurs	case
8	Vancouleurs	Vancouleur	PROPN	Number=Plur	4 went	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 fears	punct
10	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 fears	advmod
11	without	without	ADP	_	12 fears	case
12	fears	fear	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 went	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 doubted	punct
14	for	for	SCONJ	_	17 doubted	mark
15	Reynaud	Reynaud	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 doubted	nsubj
16	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes	15 Reynaud	nmod:unmarked
17	doubted	doubt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 went	parataxis
18	to	to	ADP	_	19 what	case
19	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 doubted	obl
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 matter	det
21	matter	matter	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 grow	nsubj
22	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 grow	aux
23	grow	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 what	acl:relcl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	go	past	the four	barons's way	Vancouleurs	without fears	vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location way=Theme
2	doubt	past	Reynaud Reynaud			what obl	vn judgment-33.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	grow	might	the matter				vn appear-48.1.1 «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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🌲 Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the Treachery of King John, sentence 70

The tree

Pragmatics

Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the Treachery of King John, sentence 70