--- title: Take off your coat, and your hose and your shoes, and go in your shi… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics description: Take off your coat, and your hose and your shoes, and go in your shirt only, carrying on your back the saddle of a horse, and rest not till you come to the presence of King Charles, when you shall confess your misdoings, and pray for mercy. Who acts: you. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg75339:21:24 # text = Take off your coat, and your hose and your shoes, and go in your shirt only, carrying on your back the saddle of a horse, and rest not till you come to the presence of King Charles, when you shall confess your misdoings, and pray for mercy. 1 Take take VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 off off ADP RP _ 1 compound:prt _ _ 3 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 4 nmod:poss _ _ 4 coat coat NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 7 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 8 nmod:poss _ _ 8 hose hose NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obl _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 10 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 11 nmod:poss _ _ 11 shoes shoe NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 14 go go VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 1 conj _ _ 15 in in ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 17 nmod:poss _ _ 17 shirt shirt NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ _ 18 only only ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 20 carrying carry VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 14 advcl _ _ 21 on on ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 23 nmod:poss _ _ 23 back back NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obl _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 saddle saddle NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obj _ _ 26 of of ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 horse horse NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 29 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 31 rest rest VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 1 conj _ _ 32 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 31 advmod _ _ 33 till till SCONJ IN _ 35 mark _ _ 34 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 35 nsubj _ _ 35 come come VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 31 advcl _ _ 36 to to ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 37 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 38 presence presence NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obl _ _ 39 of of ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 40 King King PROPN NNP Number=Sing 41 nmod:desc _ _ 41 Charles Charles PROPN NNP Number=Sing 38 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 42 , , PUNCT , _ 46 punct _ _ 43 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 46 advmod _ _ 44 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 46 nsubj _ _ 45 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 46 aux _ _ 46 confess confess VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 31 conj _ _ 47 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 48 nmod:poss _ _ 48 misdoings misdoing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 46 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 49 , , PUNCT , _ 51 punct _ _ 50 and and CCONJ CC _ 51 cc _ _ 51 pray pray VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 parataxis _ _ 52 for for ADP IN _ 53 case _ _ 53 mercy mercy NOUN NN Number=Sing 51 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 54 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **take off** | imperative | you *not said here* | your coat | | | | your hose and your shoes *obl* | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent coat=Theme | | 2 | **go** | infinitive | you *not said here* | | | your shirt | | | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in shirt=Location | | 3 | **carry** | gerund | you *not said here* | the saddle of a horse | | your back | | | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent saddle=Theme | | 4 | **not** **rest** | infinitive | you *not said here* | | | | | | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **come** | present | you | | | the presence of Charles King | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to presence=Initial\_Location | | 6 | **confess** | shall | you | your misdoings | | | | | vn confess-37.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent misdoing=Topic | | 7 | **pray** | present | | | | | | for mercy | vn long-32.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Pivot for mercy=Theme | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75339/21/23/) - next →: [sentence 25](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75339/21/25/) - ↑ back to [Of the Doings of Floripas](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75339/21/)