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title: Then Oliver said to Fierabras, "Now, Sir King, I must needs put you… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: Then Oliver said to Fierabras, "Now, Sir King, I must needs put you down, and this I do with much discontent. Who acts: Oliver, this. A sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How Oliver and Others Were Taken Prisoners, with its dependency tree and 
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Oliver and Others Were Taken Prisoners, sentence 15

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Then Oliver said to Fierabras, "Now, Sir King, I must needs put you down, and this I do with much discontent.

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**Who acts:** Oliver, this · **What happens:** say, need, put down, do · **To what, where:** Fierabras · **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 and Others Were Taken Prisoners. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Oliver, this), 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:pg75339:18:15
# text = Then Oliver said to Fierabras, "Now, Sir King, I must needs put you down, and this I do with much discontent.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	Oliver	Oliver	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Fierabras	Fierabras	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
7	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	11	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
10	Sir	Sir	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
14	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	needs	need	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
16	put	put	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	xcomp	_	_
17	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	16	obj	_	_
18	down	down	ADP	RP	_	16	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
21	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	23	nsubj	_	_
22	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	do	do	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
24	with	with	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	discontent	discontent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | Oliver |  | Fierabras |  | then | Sir King *ccomp* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to fierabras=Recipient |
| 2 | **need** *in a quote* | must | Oliver |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 3 | **put down** *not said to happen, in a quote* | infinitive | Oliver *not said here* |  | Fierabras |  |  |  | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent you=Goal |
| 4 | **do** *in a quote* | present | this |  |  |  |  | with much discontent; I *nsubj* | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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