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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Mawgis Became a Hermit, sentence 67

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This he crossed in a boat, and having passed through a pine forest that was on the other side of the river, came to a well whereby there was a little house with a spring before the door, in which a hermit might conveniently dwell.

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**Who acts:** This, pine forest, hermit · **What happens:** cross, pass, be, come, dwell · **To what, where:** boat, pine forest, other side, door

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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: who acts (This, pine forest, hermit), 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:pg75339:10:67
# text = This he crossed in a boat, and having passed through a pine forest that was on the other side of the river, came to a well whereby there was a little house with a spring before the door, in which a hermit might conveniently dwell.
1	This	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	nsubj	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	crossed	cross	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	boat	boat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	having	have	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	aux	_	_
10	passed	pass	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
11	through	through	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	pine	pine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
15	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	20	nsubj	_	_
16	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
17	on	on	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	acl:relcl	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
25	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
26	to	to	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
28	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	29	advmod	_	_
29	whereby	whereby	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	31	advmod	_	_
30	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	31	expl	_	_
31	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	34	cop	_	_
32	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
33	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
35	with	with	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	spring	spring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nmod	_	_
38	before	before	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	48	punct	_	_
42	in	in	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
43	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	48	obl	_	_
44	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
45	hermit	hermit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	nsubj	_	_
46	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	48	aux	_	_
47	conveniently	conveniently	ADV	RB	_	48	advmod	_	_
48	dwell	dwell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cross** | past | This |  |  | a boat |  | Reynaud *nsubj* | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **pass** | gerund · perfect | This *not said here* |  |  | a pine forest |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme through forest=Location |
| 3 | **is** | past | a pine forest |  |  | the other side |  | of the river | tree rules |
| 4 | **come** | past |  |  |  | the door |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme before door=Location |
| 5 | **is** | past |  |  |  |  | spring | to a little house | tree rules |
| 6 | **dwell** | might | a hermit |  |  |  |  | which *obl*; conveniently *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in which=Location |

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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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