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title: So fair was she, that if a man had fasted for three days or four and… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: So fair was she, that if a man had fasted for three days or four and should then look upon her, he should be as well satisfied as with abundance of meat and drink. Who acts: man. A sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How Oliver and His Comrades 
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Oliver and His Comrades Fared, sentence 49

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So fair was she, that if a man had fasted for three days or four and should then look upon her, he should be as well satisfied as with abundance of meat and drink.

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**Who acts:** man · **What happens:** be, fast, look · **To what, where:** Floripas

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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 (man), 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:pg75339:19:49
# text = So fair was she, that if a man had fasted for three days or four and should then look upon her, he should be as well satisfied as with abundance of meat and drink.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	fair	fair	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
6	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
7	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
10	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	fasted	fast	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	2	conj	_	_
12	for	for	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	14	nummod	_	_
14	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	_
15	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	14	conj	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
18	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
19	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	20	advmod	_	_
20	look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	conj	_	_
21	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
24	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
25	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
26	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	cop	_	_
27	as	as	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
28	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	29	advmod	_	_
29	satisfied	satisfied	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	conj	_	_
30	as	as	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	with	with	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	abundance	abundance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	_
33	of	of	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	meat	meat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nmod	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
36	drink	drink	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past |  | Floripas |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **fast** | past · perfect | a man |  |  |  | day |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **look** | should | a man *not said here* |  |  |  | then | upon Floripas | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent upon she=Theme |
| 4 | **is** | should | man |  |  |  |  | as abundance of meat and drink; satisfied, well *property* | 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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