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title: Fierabras answered, "Noble Oliver, will you now leave me? — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: Fierabras answered, "Noble Oliver, will you now leave me? Who acts: Fierabras, Noble Oliver. 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 the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Oliver and Others Were Taken Prisoners, sentence 17

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Fierabras answered, "Noble Oliver, will you now leave me?

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**Who acts:** Fierabras, Noble Oliver · **What happens:** answer, leave · **To what, where:** Noble Oliver, 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 (Fierabras, Noble Oliver), 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:pg75339:18:17
# text = Fierabras answered, "Noble Oliver, will you now leave me?
1	Fierabras	Fierabras	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	answered	answer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
4	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	Noble	Noble	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	Oliver	Oliver	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
9	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
10	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	11	advmod	_	_
11	leave	leave	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	parataxis	_	_
12	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **answer** *speech: ask* | past | Fierabras |  | Noble Oliver |  |  |  | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent oliver=Eventuality |
| 2 | **leave** *in a quote* | future | Noble Oliver *= oliver* | Fierabras |  |  | now |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme |

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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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