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title: And now, dinner being over, the King rose from the table; and he tol… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: And now, dinner being over, the King rose from the table; and he told before the whole company how he had fared with the Charcoal-burner. Who acts: dinner, King. A sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How Ralph Went to Court, with its dependency 
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Ralph Went to Court, sentence 73

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And now, dinner being over, the King rose from the table; and he told before the whole company how he had fared with the Charcoal-burner.

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**Who acts:** dinner, King · **What happens:** be, rise, tell, fare · **To what, where:** table · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (dinner, King), 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:pg75339:15:73
# text = And now, dinner being over, the King rose from the table; and he told before the whole company how he had fared with the Charcoal-burner.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
2	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	10	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
4	dinner	dinner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
5	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	cop	_	_
6	over	over	ADV	RB	_	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	rose	rise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	from	from	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	table	table	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
18	before	before	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	company	company	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
22	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	25	advmod	_	_
23	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
24	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
25	fared	fare	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	17	ccomp	_	_
26	with	with	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
28	Charcoal	charcoal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	burner	burner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | gerund | dinner |  |  |  |  | over *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **rise** | past | the King |  |  | the table | now |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from table=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | King |  |  |  | before the whole company |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **fare** | past · perfect | King |  |  |  |  | with the Charcoal burner | 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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