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title: And first Oliver with Hautclere smote Fierabras so fiercely on the h… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: And first Oliver with Hautclere smote Fierabras so fiercely on the helmet that he shore off a great portion of it, and the jewels wherewith it was garnished fell to the ground. Who acts: Oliver, jewels. A sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How 
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Oliver Fought With Fierabras, sentence 24

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And first Oliver with Hautclere smote Fierabras so fiercely on the helmet that he shore off a great portion of it, and the jewels wherewith it was garnished fell to the ground.

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**Who acts:** Oliver, jewels · **What happens:** smite, shore, garnish, fall · **To what, where:** Fierabras, portion

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This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How Oliver Fought With Fierabras. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Oliver, jewels), 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:pg75339:17:24
# text = And first Oliver with Hautclere smote Fierabras so fiercely on the helmet that he shore off a great portion of it, and the jewels wherewith it was garnished fell to the ground.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
2	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	3	advmod	_	_
3	Oliver	Oliver	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	with	with	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Hautclere	Hautclere	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
6	smote	smite	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	Fierabras	Fierabras	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
8	so	so	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	fiercely	fiercely	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
10	on	on	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	helmet	helmet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
13	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
14	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	shore	shore	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	_
16	off	off	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	portion	portion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	jewels	jewel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	nsubj	_	_
26	wherewith	wherewith	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	29	advmod	_	_
27	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj:pass	_	_
28	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	aux:pass	_	_
29	garnished	garnish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	25	acl:relcl	_	_
30	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
31	to	to	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **smite** | past | Oliver with Hautclere | Fierabras |  |  |  | on the helmet and shore; fiercely *property* | vn hit-18.1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent fierabras=Instrument on helmet=Patient |
| 2 | **shore** |  | Oliver |  |  |  |  | off a great portion of portion | tree rules |
| 3 | **garnish** | past · passive |  | portion |  |  |  | wherewith *property* | vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP»: subject=Destination |
| 4 | **fall** | past | the jewels |  |  |  |  | to the ground | vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to ground=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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