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title: The maiden hearing the complaints of the French knights felt a great… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: The maiden hearing the complaints of the French knights felt a great pity for them. Who acts: maiden hearing, French knights. 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
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Oliver and His Comrades Fared, sentence 50

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The maiden hearing the complaints of the French knights felt a great pity for them.

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**Who acts:** maiden hearing, French knights · **What happens:** feel, complain · **To what, where:** great pity

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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 (maiden hearing, French knights), 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:pg75339:19:50
# text = The maiden hearing the complaints of the French knights felt a great pity for them.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	maiden	maiden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	hearing	hearing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	complaints	complaint	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	French	French	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	knights	knight	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	_
10	felt	feel	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	pity	pity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
14	for	for	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **feel** | past | the maiden hearing | a great pity |  |  |  | for knights *= knight*; the complaints of the French knights *nsubj* | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent pity=Location for they=Theme |
| 2 | **complain** |  | the French knights |  |  |  |  |  | nom complaint «state intransitive»: of=agent |

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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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