---
title: And as he searched he found the secret way, which when he had seen h… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: And as he searched he found the secret way, which when he had seen he cried, "This has that false knave Mawgis done. Who acts: King, This. 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 pragmatics of e
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75339/12/9/)

<!-- 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/) / [How Peace Was Made](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75339/12/) / 9

# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Peace Was Made, sentence 9

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
And as he searched he found the secret way, which when he had seen he cried, "This has that false knave Mawgis done.

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** King, This · **What happens:** search, find, see, cry, have, do · **To what, where:** secret way, false knave · **Speech:** someone speaks here

<!-- .vabout -->
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 (King, 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:pg75339:12:9
# text = And as he searched he found the secret way, which when he had seen he cried, "This has that false knave Mawgis done.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	searched	search	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	secret	secret	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
11	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	15	nsubj:pass	_	_
12	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	15	mark	_	_
13	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
14	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	acl:relcl	_	_
16	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	This	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	21	nsubj	_	_
21	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	ccomp	_	_
22	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	24	det	_	_
23	false	false	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	knave	knave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
25	Mawgis	Mawgis	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	appos	_	_
26	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	24	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **search** | past | King |  |  |  |  |  | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **find** | past | King | the secret way |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Topic |
| 3 | **see** | past · perfect · passive |  | the secret way |  |  |  | King *nsubj* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus |
| 4 | **cry** *speech: express* | past | King |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 5 | **have** *in a quote* | present | This | that false knave |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent knave=Patient |
| 6 | **do** *in a quote* | participle |  | that false knave *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

<!-- .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 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75339/12/8/)
- next →: [sentence 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75339/12/10/)
- ↑ back to [How Peace Was Made](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75339/12/)