Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the Craft of Mawgis, sentence 101
When Mawgis saw how the King had smitten Richard, he had much ado to keep still.
Who acts: Mawgis, King, much ado · What happens: see, smite, have, keep · To what, where: smitten Richard, much ado
This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Of the Craft of Mawgis. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Mawgis, King, much ado), 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 | 3 saw | advmod |
| 2 | Mawgis | Mawgis | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 saw | nsubj |
| 3 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 had | advcl |
| 4 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 8 smitten | advmod |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 King | det |
| 6 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 smitten | nsubj |
| 7 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 smitten | aux |
| 8 | smitten | smite | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 Richard | amod |
| 9 | Richard | Richard | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 saw | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 saw | punct |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 had | nsubj |
| 12 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 ado | amod |
| 14 | ado | ado | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 had | obj |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 keep | mark |
| 16 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 had | xcomp |
| 17 | still | still | ADV | _ | 16 keep | advmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | Mawgis | smitten Richard | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer richard=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | smite | past · perfect | the King | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | have | past | King | much ado | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | keep | to-infinitive | much ado not said here | still | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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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