Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, More Deeds of Mawgis, sentence 44
After a while they all felt a great desire to sleep.
Who acts: Peers · What happens: feel, sleep · To what, where: great desire
This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, More Deeds 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 (Peers), 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 | After | after | ADP | _ | 3 while | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 while | det |
| 3 | while | while | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 felt | obl |
| 4 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 felt | nsubj |
| 5 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 they | det |
| 6 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 desire | det |
| 8 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 desire | amod |
| 9 | desire | desire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 felt | obj |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 sleep | mark |
| 11 | sleep | sleep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 desire | acl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 felt | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feel | past | Peers = peer | a great desire | while | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent desire=Theme | |||
| 2 | sleep | to-infinitive | Peers = peer not said here | a great desire not said here | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: 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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