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title: And when he had said this, Oliver ran at Fierabras as fiercely as a… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: And when he had said this, Oliver ran at Fierabras as fiercely as a lion that leaps upon its prey. Who acts: Oliver, lion. 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 pragmatics of eve
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Oliver Fought With Fierabras, sentence 74

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And when he had said this, Oliver ran at Fierabras as fiercely as a lion that leaps upon its prey.

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**Who acts:** Oliver, lion · **What happens:** say, run, leap · **To what, where:** this, Fierabras, prey · **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, lion), 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:pg75339:17:74
# text = And when he had said this, Oliver ran at Fierabras as fiercely as a lion that leaps upon its prey.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	5	advmod	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	said	say	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
6	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	Oliver	Oliver	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	ran	run	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
10	at	at	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	Fierabras	Fierabras	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
12	as	as	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	fiercely	fiercely	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
14	as	as	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	lion	lion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
17	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	18	nsubj	_	_
18	leaps	leap	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	acl:relcl	_	_
19	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	prey	prey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past · perfect | Oliver | this |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent this=Topic |
| 2 | **run** | past | Oliver |  |  | Fierabras |  | as a lion; fiercely *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at fierabras=Trajectory |
| 3 | **leap** | present | a lion |  |  | lion's prey |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon prey=Trajectory |

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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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