--- title: The next day, Ralph, having thought much on what he had undertaken,… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics description: The next day, Ralph, having thought much on what he had undertaken, loaded his mare, as he was wont to do, with two panniers full of coals, and made ready to start on his journey to the court. " Who acts: Ralph, next day. 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" **Who acts:** Ralph, next day · **What happens:** have, undertake, load, be, do, make · **To what, where:** Ralph, mare, two panniers, journey This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How Ralph Went to Court. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ralph, next day), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg75339:15:1 # text = The next day, Ralph, having thought much on what he had undertaken, loaded his mare, as he was wont to do, with two panniers full of coals, and made ready to start on his journey to the court. " 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 next next ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 5 Ralph Ralph PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 7 having have VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 5 acl _ _ 8 thought thought ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ _ 9 much much ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 10 on on ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 what what PRON WP PronType=Rel 7 obl _ _ 12 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 13 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 14 aux _ _ 14 undertaken undertake VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 11 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 16 loaded load VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 17 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 18 nmod:poss _ _ 18 mare mare NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 20 as as SCONJ IN _ 23 mark _ _ 21 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ _ 22 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 23 cop _ _ 23 wont wont ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 conj _ _ 24 to to PART TO _ 25 mark _ _ 25 do do VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 23 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 26 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 27 with with ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 28 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 29 nummod _ _ 29 panniers pannier NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 obj _ _ 30 full full ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 amod _ _ 31 of of ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 32 coals coal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 33 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 34 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 35 made make VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 16 parataxis _ _ 36 ready ready ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 35 xcomp _ _ 37 to to PART TO _ 38 mark _ _ 38 start start VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 36 xcomp _ _ 39 on on ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 40 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 41 nmod:poss _ _ 41 journey journey NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 obl _ _ 42 to to ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 43 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 44 det _ _ 44 court court NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 45 . . PUNCT . _ 36 punct _ _ 46 " " PUNCT '' _ 35 punct _ SpaceAfter=No ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** | gerund | Ralph *not said here* | | | Ralph | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **undertake** | past · perfect | Ralph | | | | | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | | 3 | **load** | past | the next day | | Ralph's mare | | | | vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent mare=Destination | | 4 | **is** | past | Ralph | | | | | wont *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **do** | to-infinitive | Ralph *not said here* | two panniers | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pannier=Eventuality | | 6 | **make** | past | | | | | | ready *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | | 7 | **start** | to-infinitive | | | | Ralph's journey to the court | | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | | 8 | **journey** | | Ralph | | | | | to the court | nom journey «act transitive»: poss=agent to=obl | 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. **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. - ← previous: [How Ralph Entertained the King, 85](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75339/14/85/) - next →: [sentence 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75339/15/2/) - ↑ back to [How Ralph Went to Court](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75339/15/)