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title: Henry VIII was tall, strong and sporty as a young king; he grew very… — Kings, queens and emperors · tree and pragmatics
description: Henry VIII was tall, strong and sporty as a young king; he grew very heavy later, after a bad jousting accident in 1536 (jousting is knights on horses charging at each other with long poles) and years of a painful leg wound. Who acts: Henry, horses. A sentence of the lesson «Kings, queens and empero
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# Kings, queens and emperors, sentence 11

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Henry VIII was tall, strong and sporty as a young king; he grew very heavy later, after a bad jousting accident in 1536 (jousting is knights on horses charging at each other with long poles) and years of a painful leg wound.

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**Who acts:** Henry, horses · **What happens:** be, grow, joust, charge · **To what, where:** knights, each

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Kings, queens and emperors» of the myths course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Henry, horses), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:myths:019-kings-queens-and-emperors.lesson:11
# text = Henry VIII was tall, strong and sporty as a young king; he grew very heavy later, after a bad jousting accident in 1536 (jousting is knights on horses charging at each other with long poles) and years of a painful leg wound.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = myths
# lesson = 019-kings-queens-and-emperors.lesson
# annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Henry	Henry	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	VIII	VIII	NUM	CD	NumForm=Roman|NumType=Card	1	flat	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	tall	tall	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	strong	strong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	sporty	sporty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	_
9	as	as	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
13	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj
16	very	very	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	heavy	heavy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	xcomp	_	_
18	later	late	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	15	advmod	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
20	after	after	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
22	bad	bad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
23	jousting	joust	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=24:compound|HaikuPos=VERB:VBG:Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part
24	accident	accident	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
25	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	1536	1536	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	24	nmod	_	_
27	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	28	punct	_	_
28	jousting	joust	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	30	nsubj	_	_
29	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	30	cop	_	_
30	knights	knight	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	parataxis	_	_
31	on	on	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	horses	horse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	nmod	_	_
33	charging	charge	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	32	acl	_	_
34	at	at	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	each	each	DET	DT	ExtPos=PRON|PronType=Rcp	33	obl	_	_
36	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	fixed	_	_
37	with	with	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	amod	_	_
39	poles	pole	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	obl	_	_
40	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	30	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=39:punct
41	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	42	cc	_	_
42	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	conj	_	_
43	of	of	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
44	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	47	det	_	_
45	painful	painful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	47	amod	_	_
46	leg	leg	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	compound	_	_
47	wound	wound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	nmod	_	_
48	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed polarity=none

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | Henry |  |  |  |  | tall *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** |  | Henry *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **be** |  | Henry *not said here* |  |  |  |  | as a young king | tree rules |
| 4 | **grow** | past | Henry |  |  |  | after a bad jousting accident in 1536 and years of a painful leg wound | heavy, late *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **joust** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn battle-36.4 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **is a** | present |  | knights |  |  |  | on horses | tree rules |
| 7 | **charge** | gerund | horses *not said here* |  |  | each |  | with long poles | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at each=Trajectory |

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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.

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**Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)**, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, `mova-school-agreed-en.conllu`) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:myths:019-kings-queens-and-emperors.lesson:11`.

**The tree:** Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1. **The frames** are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (`prag`) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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