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title: Meanwhile the two champions continued to fight fiercely, more fierce… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Oliver Fought With Fierabras, sentence 43

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Meanwhile the two champions continued to fight fiercely, more fiercely than befitted prudent or experienced warriors.

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**What happens:** continue, fight, befit · **To what, where:** two champions, prudent warriors

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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: 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:pg75339:17:43
# text = Meanwhile the two champions continued to fight fiercely, more fiercely than befitted prudent or experienced warriors.
1	Meanwhile	meanwhile	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
4	champions	champion	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	nsubj	_	_
5	continued	continue	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	acl	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	fight	fight	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	xcomp	_	_
8	fiercely	fiercely	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
10	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	11	advmod	_	_
11	fiercely	fiercely	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
12	than	than	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
13	befitted	befit	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
14	prudent	prudent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
15	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	experienced	experienced	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	conj	_	_
17	warriors	warrior	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **continue** | participle |  | the two champions *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn continue-55.3 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **fight** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | fiercely *property* | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **befit** | participle |  | prudent warriors |  |  |  | fiercely, meanwhile *property* | 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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