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title: There suddenly fell upon the two so thick a cloud that neither could… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: There suddenly fell upon the two so thick a cloud that neither could see the other. A sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How Mawgis Became a Hermit, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Mawgis Became a Hermit, sentence 31

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There suddenly fell upon the two so thick a cloud that neither could see the other.

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**What happens:** fall, see · **To what, where:** cloud

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This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How Mawgis Became a Hermit. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg75339:10:31
# text = There suddenly fell upon the two so thick a cloud that neither could see the other.
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	3	expl	_	_
2	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	upon	upon	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
6	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	nsubj	_	_
7	so	so	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	thick	thick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	ccomp	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	cloud	cloud	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
11	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	14	obj	_	_
12	neither	neither	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
13	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	acl:relcl	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fall** | past |  |  |  | there |  | suddenly *property* | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **see** | could |  | a cloud |  |  |  | neither *property* | tree rules |

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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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**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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