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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Ralph Went to Court, sentence 54

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After he had passed through many chambers he came to one that was more splendid than all that he had seen before.

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**Who acts:** Ralph · **What happens:** pass, come, be, see · **To what, where:** many chambers, one

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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), 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:pg75339:15:54
# text = After he had passed through many chambers he came to one that was more splendid than all that he had seen before.
1	After	after	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	passed	pass	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	9	advcl	_	_
5	through	through	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	chambers	chamber	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
8	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	9	obl	_	_
12	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	15	nsubj	_	_
13	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
14	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	15	advmod	_	_
15	splendid	splendid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	acl:relcl	_	_
16	than	than	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
17	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	21	det:predet	_	_
18	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
19	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
20	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	15	advcl	_	_
22	before	before	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pass** | past · perfect | Ralph |  |  | many chambers |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme through chamber=Location |
| 2 | **come** | past | Ralph |  | one |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to one=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **is** | past |  |  |  |  |  | splendid *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **see** | past · perfect | Ralph |  |  |  |  | before *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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