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title: On the table were many dainties, and there was a store of dishes, bo… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: On the table were many dainties, and there was a store of dishes, both silver and gold, and many other adornments. " Who acts: many dainties. 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 pragmat
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Ralph Went to Court, sentence 56

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On the table were many dainties, and there was a store of dishes, both silver and gold, and many other adornments. "

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**Who acts:** many dainties · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** many dainties, table, store

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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 (many dainties), 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:pg75339:15:56
# text = On the table were many dainties, and there was a store of dishes, both silver and gold, and many other adornments. "
1	On	on	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	table	table	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
4	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	dainties	dainty	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	10	expl	_	_
10	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	store	store	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	dishes	dish	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	both	both	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc:preconj	_	_
17	silver	silver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
22	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
23	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	adornments	adornment	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
26	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past |  | many dainties |  | the table |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | past | many dainties | a store both silver and gold and many other adornments |  |  |  | of dishes; silver and gold *conj*; many other adornments *conj* | tree rules |

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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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