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title: Consider also that King Charles may be willing to give up Fierabras… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: Consider also that King Charles may be willing to give up Fierabras in exchange for these knights. Who acts: you, Charles. A sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How Oliver and His Comrades Fared, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ev
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Oliver and His Comrades Fared, sentence 28

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Consider also that King Charles may be willing to give up Fierabras in exchange for these knights.

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**Who acts:** you, Charles · **What happens:** consider, be, give up · **To what, where:** Fierabras, exchange

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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 His Comrades Fared. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, Charles), 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:pg75339:19:28
# text = Consider also that King Charles may be willing to give up Fierabras in exchange for these knights.
1	Consider	consider	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	also	also	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
3	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
4	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod:desc	_	_
5	Charles	Charles	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
6	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
7	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	cop	_	_
8	willing	willing	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	advcl	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	xcomp	_	_
11	up	up	ADP	RP	_	10	compound:prt	_	_
12	Fierabras	Fierabras	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	iobj	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	exchange	exchange	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
15	for	for	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	17	det	_	_
17	knights	knight	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **consider** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V whether/if S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | may | Charles  King |  |  |  |  | willing *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **give up** | to-infinitive | Charles  King *not said here* |  | Fierabras | exchange for this knights |  |  | vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fierabras=Source |

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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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