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title: Right good cheer they had, fat capons, and bread, and wine of the be… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: Right good cheer they had, fat capons, and bread, and wine of the best. Who acts: peace. 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 every clause.
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Ralph Entertained the King, sentence 44

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Right good cheer they had, fat capons, and bread, and wine of the best.

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**Who acts:** peace · **What happens:** have · **To what, where:** good cheer

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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 (peace), 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:pg75339:14:44
# text = Right good cheer they had, fat capons, and bread, and wine of the best.
1	Right	right	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	cheer	cheer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	fat	fat	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	capons	capon	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	bread	bread	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	wine	wine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	best	good	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | peace | good cheer and fat capons and bread and wine *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cheer=Patient |

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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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