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title: And after this he fetched other stones and mortar, and these in such… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: And after this he fetched other stones and mortar, and these in such plenty that the masons had much ado to deal with them. Who acts: Reynaud, masons. A sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Of Reynaud's End, with its dependency tree and the pragm
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of Reynaud's End, sentence 37

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And after this he fetched other stones and mortar, and these in such plenty that the masons had much ado to deal with them.

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**Who acts:** Reynaud, masons · **What happens:** fetch, have, deal · **To what, where:** other stones, much ado

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This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Of Reynaud's End. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Reynaud, masons), 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:pg75339:13:37
# text = And after this he fetched other stones and mortar, and these in such plenty that the masons had much ado to deal with them.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	after	after	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	obl	_	_
4	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	fetched	fetch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	stones	stone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	mortar	mortar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
12	these	this	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	15	nsubj	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	plenty	plenty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
16	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	masons	mason	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nsubj	_	_
19	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	advcl	_	_
20	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	ado	ado	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
22	to	to	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	_
23	deal	deal	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	acl	_	_
24	with	with	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fetch** | past | Reynaud | other stones and mortar |  |  | after this | such plenty  these *conj* | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stone=Theme |
| 2 | **have** | past | the masons | much ado |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ado=Patient |
| 3 | **deal** | to-infinitive | the masons *not said here* | much ado *not said here* |  |  |  | with men *= man* | vn cope-83 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent with they=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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