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description: When the King heard this he smote Roland his nephew in the face with his gauntlet so sharply that the blood gushed out abundantly. Who acts: King, blood. A sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How Fierabras Defied King Charles, with its dependenc
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Fierabras Defied King Charles, sentence 28

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When the King heard this he smote Roland his nephew in the face with his gauntlet so sharply that the blood gushed out abundantly.

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**Who acts:** King, blood · **What happens:** hear, smite, gush out · **To what, where:** this, Roland, face

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This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How Fierabras Defied King Charles. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King, blood), 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:pg75339:16:28
# text = When the King heard this he smote Roland his nephew in the face with his gauntlet so sharply that the blood gushed out abundantly.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	heard	hear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	advcl	_	_
5	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	obj	_	_
6	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	smote	smite	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	Roland	Roland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
9	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	nephew	nephew	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
14	with	with	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	gauntlet	gauntlet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
17	so	so	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	sharply	sharply	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
19	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	blood	blood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
22	gushed	gush	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	advcl	_	_
23	out	out	ADP	RP	_	22	compound:prt	_	_
24	abundantly	abundantly	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hear** | past | the King | this |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer this=Stimulus |
| 2 | **smite** | past | King | Roland |  | the face with King's gauntlet |  | King's nephew *obj* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Stimulus roland=Experiencer nephew=Result |
| 3 | **gush out** | participle | the blood |  |  |  |  | abundantly, sharply *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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