Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the Craft of Mawgis, sentence 15

But when his wife the Lady Clare came forth to meet him, he would not suffer her to come near to him. "

Who acts: wife, Reynaud · What happens: come, meet, not suffer · To what, where: Reynaud, wife

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 (wife, Reynaud), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	17 suffer	cc
2	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	8 came	advmod
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 wife	nmod:poss
4	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 came	nsubj
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Clare	det
6	Lady	Lady	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 Clare	compound
7	Clare	Clare	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 wife	appos
8	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 suffer	advcl
9	forth	forth	ADV	_	8 came	advmod
10	to	to	PART	_	11 meet	mark
11	meet	meet	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 came	advcl
12	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 meet	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 came	punct
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 suffer	nsubj
15	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 suffer	aux
16	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	17 suffer	advmod
17	suffer	suffer	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
18	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 suffer	obj
19	to	to	PART	_	20 come	mark
20	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 suffer	advcl
21	near	near	ADV	_	20 come	advmod
22	to	to	ADP	_	23 him	case
23	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 come	obl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 suffer	punct
25	"	"	PUNCT	_	17 suffer	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	come	past	Reynaud's wife			forth property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	meet	to-infinitive	Reynaud's wife not said here	Reynaud			vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Co-Agent
3	not suffer	would	Reynaud	wife			vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus
4	come	to-infinitive	Reynaud not said here		Reynaud	near property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to he=Initial_Location

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 Craft of Mawgis, sentence 15

The tree

Pragmatics

Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the Craft of Mawgis, sentence 15