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title: It was a great hall finely painted and hung about with tapestries, a… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: It was a great hall finely painted and hung about with tapestries, and there the King sate at dinner in great state. Who acts: courtesy, great hall. A sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How Ralph Went to Court, with its dependency tree and the 
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Ralph Went to Court, sentence 55

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It was a great hall finely painted and hung about with tapestries, and there the King sate at dinner in great state.

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**Who acts:** courtesy, great hall · **What happens:** be, paint, hang about, sate · **To what, where:** great hall, dinner

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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 (courtesy, great hall), 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:pg75339:15:55
# text = It was a great hall finely painted and hung about with tapestries, and there the King sate at dinner in great state.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	hall	hall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
6	finely	finely	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	painted	paint	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	hung	hang	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
10	about	about	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
11	with	with	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	tapestries	tapestry	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
15	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	18	expl	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	appos	_	_
18	sate	sate	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
19	at	at	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	dinner	dinner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	state	state	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | courtesy | a great hall |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **paint** | past | a great hall |  |  |  |  | finely *property* | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **hang about** | past | a great hall *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with tapestries; about *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **sate** | present | a great hall *not said here* |  |  | dinner; there |  | in great state | vn satisfy-55.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Instrument |

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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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