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title: And so with much toil and trouble they came to Ardennes, and were re… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: And so with much toil and trouble they came to Ardennes, and were received with much gladness. Who acts: toil. 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 pragmatics of every clause.
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of What Befell At Montalban, sentence 127

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And so with much toil and trouble they came to Ardennes, and were received with much gladness.

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**Who acts:** toil · **What happens:** come, receive · **To what, where:** Ardennes

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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 (toil), 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:pg75339:11:127
# text = And so with much toil and trouble they came to Ardennes, and were received with much gladness.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
2	so	so	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
3	with	with	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	toil	toil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	trouble	trouble	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
8	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	Ardennes	Ardennes	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux:pass	_	_
15	received	receive	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	advcl	_	_
16	with	with	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	gladness	gladness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | toil |  |  | Ardennes |  | with much toil and trouble | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to ardennes=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **receive** | past · passive | toil *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with much gladness | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP» |

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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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