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description: When Floripas heard him she changed colour, being very angry, and said, "If this be so, then I swear by Mahomet that all these knights shall be hanged on a gibbet." Who acts: Floripas, this, I. A sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Of the Doings
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the Doings of Floripas, sentence 71

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When Floripas heard him she changed colour, being very angry, and said, "If this be so, then I swear by Mahomet that all these knights shall be hanged on a gibbet."

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**Who acts:** Floripas, this, I · **What happens:** hear, change, be, say, swear, hange · **To what, where:** Guy, colour, knights, gibbet · **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 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 (Floripas, this, I), 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:pg75339:21:71
# text = When Floripas heard him she changed colour, being very angry, and said, "If this be so, then I swear by Mahomet that all these knights shall be hanged on a gibbet."
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	3	advmod	_	_
2	Floripas	Floripas	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	heard	hear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	advcl	_	_
4	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	changed	change	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
7	colour	colour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	cop	_	_
10	very	very	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	angry	angry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
16	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
18	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	20	nsubj	_	_
19	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	cop	_	_
20	so	so	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
22	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	24	advmod	_	_
23	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
24	swear	swear	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	ccomp	_	_
25	by	by	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	Mahomet	mahomet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
27	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	33	mark	_	_
28	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	30	det:predet	_	_
29	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	30	det	_	_
30	knights	knight	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	nsubj:pass	_	_
31	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	33	aux	_	_
32	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	33	aux:pass	_	_
33	hanged	hange	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	24	advcl	_	_
34	on	on	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	gibbet	gibbet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hear** | past | Floripas | Guy |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus |
| 2 | **change** | past | Floripas | colour |  |  |  |  | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent colour=Patient |
| 3 | **is** | gerund | Floripas *not said here* |  |  |  |  | angry *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 5 | **is** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | infinitive | this |  |  |  |  | so *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **swear** *in a quote* | present | I |  |  |  | then | by Mahomet | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **hange** *in a quote* | shall · passive |  | all knights |  | a gibbet |  |  | 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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