Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, More Deeds of Mawgis, sentence 62
And when the Peers found that their swords were gone they were fairly distraught with anger.
Who acts: Peers · What happens: find, go, be · To what, where: swords · Speech: someone speaks here
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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 found | cc |
| 2 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 found | advmod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Peers | det |
| 4 | Peers | Peer | PROPN | Number=Plur | 5 found | nsubj |
| 5 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 gone | mark |
| 7 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 swords | nmod:poss |
| 8 | swords | sword | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 gone | nsubj |
| 9 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 gone | aux:pass |
| 10 | gone | go | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 found | ccomp |
| 11 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 distraught | nsubj |
| 12 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 distraught | cop |
| 13 | fairly | fairly | ADV | _ | 14 distraught | advmod |
| 14 | distraught | distraught | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 gone | ccomp |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 anger | case |
| 16 | anger | anger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 distraught | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 found | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | past | the Peers | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | go | past · passive | Peers's swords | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 3 | is | past | Peers = peer | with anger; distraught, fairly property | tree rules |
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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