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title: When he had done this, Fierabras said, "Now, noble sir, carry me awa… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: When he had done this, Fierabras said, "Now, noble sir, carry me away from this place, for of my own strength I cannot go." Who acts: Oliver, Fierabras, noble sir. A sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How Oliver and Others Were Taken Prisoners,
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Oliver and Others Were Taken Prisoners, sentence 4

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When he had done this, Fierabras said, "Now, noble sir, carry me away from this place, for of my own strength I cannot go."

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**Who acts:** Oliver, Fierabras, noble sir · **What happens:** do, say, carry, not go · **To what, where:** this, Fierabras, own strength · **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, Fierabras, noble sir), 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:pg75339:18:4
# text = When he had done this, Fierabras said, "Now, noble sir, carry me away from this place, for of my own strength I cannot go."
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	8	advcl	_	_
5	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
7	Fierabras	Fierabras	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
10	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	16	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	noble	noble	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	sir	sir	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
16	carry	carry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	ccomp	_	_
17	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	16	obj	_	_
18	away	away	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
19	from	from	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	21	det	_	_
21	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
23	for	for	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	fixed	_	_
25	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
26	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	strength	strength	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	parataxis	_	_
28	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
29	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	31	advmod	_	_
31	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past · perfect | Oliver | this |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent this=Eventuality |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Fierabras |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **carry** *in a quote* | infinitive | noble sir | Fierabras |  |  | now | my own strength *parataxis*; away *property* | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme |
| 4 | **not** **go** *in a quote* | can | Fierabras | my own strength *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location strength=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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