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title: In this way they did but little damage, but the knights and the maid… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: In this way they did but little damage, but the knights and the maidens in the castle were sorely pressed for want of food, nor did any one suffer more than Floripas herself, who was grieved not for herself only, but for the knights also, and for the maidens that waited on her. Who acts: darts, one,
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the Doings of the French Knights, sentence 68

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In this way they did but little damage, but the knights and the maidens in the castle were sorely pressed for want of food, nor did any one suffer more than Floripas herself, who was grieved not for herself only, but for the knights also, and for the maidens that waited on her.

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**Who acts:** darts, one, maidens · **What happens:** do, press, suffer, grieve, wait, want · **To what, where:** way, knights, more, food

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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 the French Knights. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (darts, one, maidens), 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:pg75339:22:68
# text = In this way they did but little damage, but the knights and the maidens in the castle were sorely pressed for want of food, nor did any one suffer more than Floripas herself, who was grieved not for herself only, but for the knights also, and for the maidens that waited on her.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
3	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
4	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
7	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	damage	damage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
10	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	knights	knight	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nsubj:pass	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	maidens	maiden	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	conj	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	castle	castle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
19	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux:pass	_	_
20	sorely	sorely	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	pressed	press	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	conj	_	_
22	for	for	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	want	want	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
27	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	28	cc	_	_
28	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
29	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	30	det	_	_
30	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	31	nsubj	_	_
31	suffer	suffer	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	ccomp	_	_
32	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	31	obj	_	_
33	than	than	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	Floripas	Floripas	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	_
35	herself	herself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	31	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
37	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	39	nsubj	_	_
38	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	39	aux:pass	_	_
39	grieved	grieve	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	31	conj	_	_
40	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	42	advmod	_	_
41	for	for	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
42	herself	herself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	39	obl	_	_
43	only	only	ADV	RB	_	39	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	48	punct	_	_
45	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	48	cc	_	_
46	for	for	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
47	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	48	det	_	_
48	knights	knight	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	conj	_	_
49	also	also	ADV	RB	_	48	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	54	punct	_	_
51	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	54	cc	_	_
52	for	for	ADP	IN	_	54	case	_	_
53	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	54	det	_	_
54	maidens	maiden	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	49	conj	_	_
55	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	56	nsubj	_	_
56	waited	wait	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	54	acl:relcl	_	_
57	on	on	ADP	IN	_	58	case	_	_
58	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	56	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
59	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past | darts *= dart* |  |  | this way |  | little damage *conj*; the knights *conj* | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **press** | past · passive |  | the knights in the castle and the maidens |  |  |  | for want of food; sorely *property* | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V NP ADJP-Result»: subject=Result |
| 3 | **do** | past | darts *= dart* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **suffer** | present | any one | more than Floripas |  |  |  | Floripas *obl* | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer more=Stimulus |
| 5 | **grieve** | past · passive |  |  |  |  |  | for Floripas; who *nsubj* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer |
| 6 | **wait** | past | the maidens |  |  |  |  | on Floripas | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on she=Location |
| 7 | **want** |  |  | food |  |  |  |  | nom want «state transitive»: of=patient |

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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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