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description: When the King's Barons heard these words they were not a little astonished, not thinking that any man could deal so generously with his enemy. Who acts: Barons, man. A sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Of What Befell At Montalban, with its dep
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of What Befell At Montalban, sentence 26

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When the King's Barons heard these words they were not a little astonished, not thinking that any man could deal so generously with his enemy.

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**Who acts:** Barons, man · **What happens:** hear, not be, not think, deal · **To what, where:** words · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Barons, man), 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:pg75339:11:26
# text = When the King's Barons heard these words they were not a little astonished, not thinking that any man could deal so generously with his enemy.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	6	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	's	's	PART	POS	_	3	case	_	_
5	Barons	Baron	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
6	heard	hear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	8	det	_	_
8	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
9	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
10	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
11	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	14	advmod	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	obl:unmarked	_	_
14	astonished	astonished	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	17	advmod	_	_
17	thinking	think	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	advcl	_	_
18	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
19	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	20	det	_	_
20	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
21	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
22	deal	deal	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	ccomp	_	_
23	so	so	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	generously	generously	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
25	with	with	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	enemy	enemy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hear** | past | the King's Barons | this words |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer word=Stimulus |
| 2 | **not** **is** | past | Barons *= baron* | this words *not said here* |  |  |  | a little *obl:unmarked*; astonished *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **not** **think** *speech: other* | gerund | Barons *= baron* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 4 | **deal** | could | any man |  |  |  |  | with King's enemy; generously *property* | vn cope-83 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent with enemy=Theme |

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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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