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title: And the King that had escaped answered, "It has gone very ill with u… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: And the King that had escaped answered, "It has gone very ill with us; we encountered seven Knights of France, who said they were King Charles's men. Who acts: King, seven, we, knights. A sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Of the Bridge of Mant
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the Bridge of Mantryble, sentence 49

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And the King that had escaped answered, "It has gone very ill with us; we encountered seven Knights of France, who said they were King Charles's men.

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**Who acts:** King, seven, we, knights · **What happens:** escape, answer, go, encounter, say, be · **To what, where:** King, seven Knights, men · **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, Of the Bridge of Mantryble. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King, seven, we, 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:pg75339:20:49
# text = And the King that had escaped answered, "It has gone very ill with us; we encountered seven Knights of France, who said they were King Charles's men.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	King	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
4	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
5	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	escaped	escape	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl:relcl	_	_
7	answered	answer	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
11	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	gone	go	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	7	parataxis	_	_
13	very	very	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	ill	ill	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	xcomp	_	_
15	with	with	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	_
18	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	encountered	encounter	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
20	seven	seven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	21	nummod	_	_
21	Knights	Knight	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	19	obj	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	France	France	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
25	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	26	nsubj	_	_
26	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	conj	_	_
27	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	_
28	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	32	cop	_	_
29	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	nmod:desc	_	_
30	Charles	Charles	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	's	's	PART	POS	_	30	case	_	_
32	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	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 | **escape** | past · perfect · passive |  | the King |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **answer** *speech: assert* | participle | the King |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **go** *in a quote* | present · perfect | seven |  |  |  |  | ill *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **encounter** *in a quote* | past | we | seven Knights of France |  |  |  |  | vn encounter-30.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer knight=Stimulus |
| 5 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | past |  |  |  |  |  | who *nsubj* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **is a** *in a quote* | past | knights *= knight* | Charles  King's men |  |  |  | Charles  King *nmod:poss* | 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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