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description: And, indeed, it was a marvellous thing; but what will not a woman's wit effect in the attaining of that which she greatly desires? Who acts: devil, marvellous thing, Floripas. A sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Of the Doings of Floripas, with
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the Doings of Floripas, sentence 59

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And, indeed, it was a marvellous thing; but what will not a woman's wit effect in the attaining of that which she greatly desires?

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**Who acts:** devil, marvellous thing, Floripas · **What happens:** be, not effect, attain, desire · **To what, where:** marvellous thing

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This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Of the Doings of Floripas. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (devil, marvellous thing, Floripas), 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:pg75339:21:59
# text = And, indeed, it was a marvellous thing; but what will not a woman's wit effect in the attaining of that which she greatly desires?
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
3	indeed	indeed	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
5	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	marvellous	marvellous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	_
11	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
12	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	19	nsubj	_	_
13	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
14	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	19	advmod	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	's	's	PART	POS	_	16	case	_	_
18	wit	wit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	effect	effect	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
20	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	attaining	attain	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	19	conj	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	22	obl	_	_
25	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	28	obj	_	_
26	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
27	greatly	greatly	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
28	desires	desire	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	advcl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | devil | a marvellous thing but a woman's wit effect |  |  |  | indeed *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **effect** | future | a marvellous thing but a woman's wit effect |  |  |  |  | a woman *nmod:poss* | tree rules |
| 3 | **attain** | gerund | a marvellous thing but a woman's wit effect *not said here* |  |  |  |  | of that | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **desire** | present | Floripas |  |  |  |  | which *obj*; greatly *property* | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot which=Theme |

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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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