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" **Who acts:** Floripas · **What happens:** open, have, spread, lay, pierce, crown · **To what, where:** great chest, chamber, fair cloth, crown, this, feet 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), 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:pg75339:21:75 # text = After this she opened a great chest that she had in her chamber, and spread a fair cloth of silk, and on this she laid the crown of thorns and the nails with which the Lord's feet were pierced. " 1 After after ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 this this PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 4 obl _ _ 3 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 4 opened open VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 6 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 chest chest NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 8 that that SCONJ IN _ 10 mark _ _ 9 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj _ _ 10 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 advcl _ _ 11 in in ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 13 nmod:poss _ _ 13 chamber chamber NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 16 spread spread VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 17 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 18 fair fair ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 19 cloth cloth NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obj _ _ 20 of of ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 21 silk silk NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 24 on on ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 this this PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 27 obl _ _ 26 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 nsubj _ _ 27 laid lay VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 crown crown NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obj _ _ 30 of of ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 31 thorns thorn NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 nmod _ _ 32 and and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 nails nail NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 conj _ _ 35 with with ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 36 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 42 obl _ _ 37 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 38 Lord Lord PROPN NNP Number=Sing 40 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 39 's 's PART POS _ 38 case _ _ 40 feet foot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 42 nsubj:pass _ _ 41 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 42 aux:pass _ _ 42 pierced pierce VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 31 acl _ SpaceAfter=No 43 . . PUNCT . _ 27 punct _ _ 44 " " PUNCT '' _ 27 punct _ SpaceAfter=No ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **open** | past | Floripas | a great chest | | | after this | | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location chest=Theme | | 2 | **have** | past | Floripas | | | Floripas's chamber | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **spread** | past | Floripas *not said here* | a fair cloth of silk | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location cloth=Theme | | 4 | **lay** | past | Floripas | the crown of thorns and the nails | | this | | | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent crown=Theme on this=Destination | | 5 | **pierce** | past · passive | | the Lord's feet | | | | with thorns and the nails | vn poke-19-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Patient with which=Instrument | | 6 | **crown** | | | thorns and the nails | | | | | nom crown «communication transitive»: of=patient | 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 74](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75339/21/74/) - next →: [sentence 76](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75339/21/76/) - ↑ back to [Of the Doings of Floripas](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75339/21/)