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title: HOW HUON RETURNED, HIS ERRAND FULFILLED — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: HOW HUON RETURNED, HIS ERRAND FULFILLED Who acts: HUON. A sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Alfred J. Church., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Alfred J. Church., sentence 42

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HOW HUON RETURNED, HIS ERRAND FULFILLED

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**Who acts:** HUON · **What happens:** return, fulfil · **To what, where:** ERRAND

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This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Alfred J. Church.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (HUON), 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:pg75339:2:42
# text = HOW HUON RETURNED, HIS ERRAND FULFILLED
1	HOW	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	3	advmod	_	_
2	HUON	HUON	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	RETURNED	return	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	HIS	his	INTJ	UH	_	6	discourse	_	_
6	ERRAND	errand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	FULFILLED	fulfil	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	acl	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **return** | past | HUON |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **fulfil** | participle |  | ERRAND *not said here* |  |  |  |  | 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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