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title: Oliver answered, "Fair lady, we are men of France, and knights of Ki… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: Oliver answered, "Fair lady, we are men of France, and knights of King Charles, and having been brought hither have been put by the Admiral into this horrible dungeon. Who acts: Oliver, we, Admiral. A sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How Oliv
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Oliver and His Comrades Fared, sentence 66

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Oliver answered, "Fair lady, we are men of France, and knights of King Charles, and having been brought hither have been put by the Admiral into this horrible dungeon.

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**Who acts:** Oliver, we, Admiral · **What happens:** answer, be, bring, put · **To what, where:** Fair lady, men, knights, horrible dungeon · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Oliver, we, Admiral), 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:pg75339:19:66
# text = Oliver answered, "Fair lady, we are men of France, and knights of King Charles, and having been brought hither have been put by the Admiral into this horrible dungeon.
1	Oliver	Oliver	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	answered	answer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
4	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	Fair	fair	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	lady	lady	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
9	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
10	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	France	France	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
15	knights	knight	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	nsubj:pass	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nmod:desc	_	_
18	Charles	Charles	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
21	having	have	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	23	aux	_	_
22	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	23	aux:pass	_	_
23	brought	bring	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	conj	_	_
24	hither	hither	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
25	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
26	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	27	aux:pass	_	_
27	put	put	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	conj	_	_
28	by	by	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	Admiral	admiral	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
31	into	into	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
32	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	34	det	_	_
33	horrible	horrible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	dungeon	dungeon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **answer** *speech: assert* | past | Oliver | Fair lady |  |  |  |  | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | we | men |  |  |  | of France | tree rules |
| 3 | **bring** *in a quote* | gerund · perfect · passive | the Admiral *not said here* |  |  |  |  | hither *property* | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together» |
| 4 | **put** *in a quote* | present · perfect · passive | the Admiral | knights of Charles  King |  | this horrible dungeon |  |  | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent subject=Goal |

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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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