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title: Of what befell the rest of the company there is no need to tell; thi… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: Of what befell the rest of the company there is no need to tell; this tale concerns King Charles only. Who acts: need, tale. A sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How Ralph Entertained the King, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of eve
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Ralph Entertained the King, sentence 4

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Of what befell the rest of the company there is no need to tell; this tale concerns King Charles only.

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**Who acts:** need, tale · **What happens:** befall, be, tell, concern · **To what, where:** rest, Charles · **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 Ralph Entertained the King. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (need, tale), 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:pg75339:14:4
# text = Of what befell the rest of the company there is no need to tell; this tale concerns King Charles only.
1	Of	of	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	3	nsubj	_	_
3	befell	befall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	rest	rest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	company	company	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
9	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	10	expl	_	_
10	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
11	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	12	det	_	_
12	need	need	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
16	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	17	det	_	_
17	tale	tale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
18	concerns	concern	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
19	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nmod:desc	_	_
20	Charles	Charles	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
21	only	only	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **befall** | past |  | the rest of the company |  |  |  | what *nsubj* | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** | present | no need |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* | to-infinitive | no need *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **concern** | present | this tale | Charles  King |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus charles=Experiencer |

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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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