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title: A horrible place it was, in which were nourished serpents and toads… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: A horrible place it was, in which were nourished serpents and toads and all manner of venomous beasts, and there was a most evil stench in it. Who acts: horrible place. A sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How Oliver and His Comrades Fared, wit
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Oliver and His Comrades Fared, sentence 34

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A horrible place it was, in which were nourished serpents and toads and all manner of venomous beasts, and there was a most evil stench in it.

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**Who acts:** horrible place · **What happens:** nourish, be · **To what, where:** nourished serpents, evil stench, light

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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 (horrible place), 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:pg75339:19:34
# text = A horrible place it was, in which were nourished serpents and toads and all manner of venomous beasts, and there was a most evil stench in it.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	horrible	horrible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
4	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	11	nsubj	_	_
9	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
10	nourished	nourish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	amod	_	_
11	serpents	serpent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	toads	toad	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	conj	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	16	det	_	_
16	manner	manner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	venomous	venomous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	beasts	beast	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
22	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	23	expl	_	_
23	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	cop	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
25	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	26	advmod	_	_
26	evil	evil	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	stench	stench	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
28	in	in	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	27	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **nourish** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is a** | past | a horrible place and nourished serpents and toads and all manner of venomous beasts | nourished serpents and toads and all manner of venomous beasts |  |  |  | toads *conj*; all manner of venomous beasts *conj* | tree rules |
| 3 | **is a** | past | a horrible place and nourished serpents and toads and all manner of venomous beasts | a evil stench |  | light |  |  | tree rules |

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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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