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title: And Oliver durst not go forward to take up his sword, for he feared… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: And Oliver durst not go forward to take up his sword, for he feared greatly what the giant might do to him. Who acts: Oliver, giant. A sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How Oliver Fought With Fierabras, with its dependency tree and the pragmat
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Oliver Fought With Fierabras, sentence 47

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And Oliver durst not go forward to take up his sword, for he feared greatly what the giant might do to him.

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**Who acts:** Oliver, giant · **What happens:** not go, take up, fear, do · **To what, where:** sword, Oliver · **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 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, giant), 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:pg75339:17:47
# text = And Oliver durst not go forward to take up his sword, for he feared greatly what the giant might do to him.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	Oliver	Oliver	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	durst	durst	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	go	go	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	forward	forward	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	xcomp	_	_
9	up	up	ADP	RP	_	8	compound:prt	_	_
10	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	sword	sword	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
14	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	feared	fear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	advcl	_	_
16	greatly	greatly	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	21	obj	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	giant	giant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
20	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	ccomp	_	_
22	to	to	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **go** | infinitive | Oliver |  |  |  |  | durst, forward *property* | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **take up** | to-infinitive | Oliver *not said here* | Oliver's sword |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sword=Theme |
| 3 | **fear** | past | Oliver |  |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 4 | **do** | might | the giant |  | Oliver |  |  | what *obj* | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality |

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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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