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title: Then Reynaud went to the stables, and choosing one of the horses, co… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: Then Reynaud went to the stables, and choosing one of the horses, commanded that it should be killed and dressed for food, and this was done, but it was a little thing among so many. Who acts: Reynaud, horse. A sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of What Befell At Montalban, sentence 56

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Then Reynaud went to the stables, and choosing one of the horses, commanded that it should be killed and dressed for food, and this was done, but it was a little thing among so many.

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**Who acts:** Reynaud, horse · **What happens:** go, choose, command, kill, dress, do · **To what, where:** stables, one, horse, this, little thing · **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 (Reynaud, horse), 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:pg75339:11:56
# text = Then Reynaud went to the stables, and choosing one of the horses, commanded that it should be killed and dressed for food, and this was done, but it was a little thing among so many.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	Reynaud	Reynaud	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	stables	stable	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	choosing	choose	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
10	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	9	obj	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	horses	horse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	commanded	command	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
16	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
17	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj:pass	_	_
18	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
19	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	aux:pass	_	_
20	killed	kill	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	ccomp	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	dressed	dress	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	20	conj	_	_
23	for	for	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
27	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	29	nsubj:pass	_	_
28	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	aux:pass	_	_
29	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
31	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
32	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	36	nsubj	_	_
33	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	36	cop	_	_
34	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
35	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	_
37	among	among	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	so	so	ADV	RB	_	39	advmod	_	_
39	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past | Reynaud |  |  | the stables | then |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to stable=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **choose** | gerund | Reynaud *not said here* | one of the horses |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme |
| 3 | **command** | past | Reynaud *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **kill** | should · passive |  | horse |  |  |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 5 | **dress** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | for food | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **do** | past · passive |  | this |  |  |  | among many | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality |
| 7 | **is a** | past | horse | a little thing |  |  |  |  | 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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