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title: When he was armed, Fierabras took the three swords that he had, Plea… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: When he was armed, Fierabras took the three swords that he had, Pleasance and Baptism and Grabon, all being of so fine a temper that there was no armour made but they could break through it. Who acts: more, Fierabras, all, Pleasance. A sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of Fran
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Oliver Fought With Fierabras, sentence 7

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When he was armed, Fierabras took the three swords that he had, Pleasance and Baptism and Grabon, all being of so fine a temper that there was no armour made but they could break through it.

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**Who acts:** more, Fierabras, all, Pleasance · **What happens:** be, take, have, make, break · **To what, where:** three swords, armour

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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 (more, Fierabras, all, Pleasance), 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:pg75339:17:7
# text = When he was armed, Fierabras took the three swords that he had, Pleasance and Baptism and Grabon, all being of so fine a temper that there was no armour made but they could break through it.
1	When	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	4	mark	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	armed	armed	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	Fierabras	Fierabras	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	10	nummod	_	_
10	swords	sword	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
11	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
12	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	Pleasance	Pleasance	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	nsubj	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	Baptism	Baptism	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	Grabon	Grabon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
21	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	27	nsubj	_	_
22	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	27	cop	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
24	so	so	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
25	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	temper	temper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	appos	_	_
28	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	30	nsubj	_	_
29	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	30	expl	_	_
30	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	acl:relcl	_	_
31	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	32	det	_	_
32	armour	armour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nsubj	_	_
33	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	_
34	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
35	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	37	nsubj	_	_
36	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	37	aux	_	_
37	break	break	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	33	conj	_	_
38	through	through	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
39	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	37	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | more |  |  |  |  | armed *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **take** | past | Fierabras | the three swords |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sword=Theme |
| 3 | **have** | past | more |  |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **is** | gerund | all |  |  |  |  | of a fine temper | tree rules |
| 5 | **make** | past | Pleasance and Baptism and Grabon |  |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **break** | could | Pleasance |  |  | armour |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through it=Location |

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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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