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description: Then Brutamont thrust these French knights into the prison, which was a dungeon so deep that no light could enter it. Who acts: prison, light. 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 
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Oliver and His Comrades Fared, sentence 33

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Then Brutamont thrust these French knights into the prison, which was a dungeon so deep that no light could enter it.

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**Who acts:** prison, light · **What happens:** be, enter · **To what, where:** dungeon, prison, Brutamont thrust

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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 (prison, light), 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:pg75339:19:33
# text = Then Brutamont thrust these French knights into the prison, which was a dungeon so deep that no light could enter it.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	Brutamont	Brutamont	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	thrust	thrust	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	6	det	_	_
5	French	French	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	knights	knight	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	appos	_	_
7	into	into	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	prison	prison	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	14	nsubj	_	_
12	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	dungeon	dungeon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
15	so	so	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	deep	deep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
17	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
18	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	19	det	_	_
19	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
20	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	enter	enter	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	advcl	_	_
22	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | the prison and a dungeon | a dungeon |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **enter** | could | no light | prison |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Destination |

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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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