---
title: This he did for four days, but on the fifth day the horse was grown… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: This he did for four days, but on the fifth day the horse was grown so feeble that there came no blood from him at all. Who acts: This. A sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Of What Befell At Montalban, with its dependency tree and the pragmatic
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75339/11/108/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75339/) / [Of What Befell At Montalban](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75339/11/) / 108

# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of What Befell At Montalban, sentence 108

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
This he did for four days, but on the fifth day the horse was grown so feeble that there came no blood from him at all.

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** This · **What happens:** do, grow, come · **To what, where:** horse, blood, all

<!-- .vabout -->
This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Of What Befell At Montalban. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (This), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

<!-- .note-en -->
**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg75339:11:108
# text = This he did for four days, but on the fifth day the horse was grown so feeble that there came no blood from him at all.
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	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	for	for	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
6	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
8	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
9	on	on	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	fifth	fifth	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
15	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux:pass	_	_
16	grown	grow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
17	so	so	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	feeble	feeble	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	xcomp	_	_
19	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
20	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	21	expl	_	_
21	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	advcl	_	_
22	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	23	det	_	_
23	blood	blood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
24	from	from	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	obl	_	_
26	at	at	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past | This |  |  |  | day | Reynaud *nsubj* | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **grow** | past · passive |  | the horse |  |  | day | feeble *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 3 | **come** | past |  | no blood |  | all; there |  | from Reynaud | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location blood=Theme |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [sentence 107](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75339/11/107/)
- next →: [sentence 109](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75339/11/109/)
- ↑ back to [Of What Befell At Montalban](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75339/11/)