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title: The giant did not so much as look at him, but turned away his head,… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: The giant did not so much as look at him, but turned away his head, for he despised Oliver as being but little of stature in comparison with himself. Who acts: giant, King. A sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How Fierabras Defied King Charles,
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Fierabras Defied King Charles, sentence 78

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The giant did not so much as look at him, but turned away his head, for he despised Oliver as being but little of stature in comparison with himself.

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**Who acts:** giant, King · **What happens:** look, turn away, despise · **To what, where:** head, Oliver

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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 (giant, 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:pg75339:16:78
# text = The giant did not so much as look at him, but turned away his head, for he despised Oliver as being but little of stature in comparison with himself.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	giant	giant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	nsubj	_	_
3	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
5	so	so	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	much	much	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
7	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
8	look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
9	at	at	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	turned	turn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	parataxis	_	_
14	away	away	ADP	RP	_	13	compound:prt	_	_
15	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
19	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	despised	despise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
21	Oliver	Oliver	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
22	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
23	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	20	advcl	_	_
24	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	conj	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	stature	stature	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
28	in	in	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	comparison	comparison	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	_
30	with	with	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	29	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look** | past · do-support | the giant |  |  |  |  | at King | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at he=Theme |
| 2 | **turn away** | past |  | King's head |  |  |  |  | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Theme |
| 3 | **despise** | past | King | Oliver |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer oliver=Stimulus |

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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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