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title: It happened about seven days after these things that the King rode b… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: It happened about seven days after these things that the King rode by the castle, for he would fain know how the besieged fared. Who acts: It, King rode. A sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How Peace Was Made, with its dependency tree and the 
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Peace Was Made, sentence 1

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It happened about seven days after these things that the King rode by the castle, for he would fain know how the besieged fared.

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**Who acts:** It, King rode · **What happens:** happen, know, besiege, fare · **To what, where:** things · **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, How Peace Was Made. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (It, King rode), 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:pg75339:12:1
# text = It happened about seven days after these things that the King rode by the castle, for he would fain know how the besieged fared.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	happened	happen	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	about	about	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	seven	seven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
5	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl:unmarked	_	_
6	after	after	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	8	det	_	_
8	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
9	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	21	obj	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	rode	road	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
13	by	by	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	castle	castle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
17	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
18	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
19	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	fain	fain	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	advcl	_	_
21	know	know	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	acl	_	_
22	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	24	advmod	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	besieged	besiege	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	21	ccomp	_	_
25	fared	fare	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **happen** | past | It |  |  |  | after this things; day |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **know** | infinitive | the King rode by the castle | this things |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **besiege** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **fare** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | 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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