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title: The Frenchmen, being now safe in the Tower, refreshed themselves wit… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: The Frenchmen, being now safe in the Tower, refreshed themselves with food, for they had fasted long, as has been told. Who acts: Frenchmen. A sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Of Guy of Burgundy, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of Guy of Burgundy, sentence 1

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The Frenchmen, being now safe in the Tower, refreshed themselves with food, for they had fasted long, as has been told.

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**Who acts:** Frenchmen · **What happens:** be, refresh, fast, tell · **To what, where:** Tower, Frenchmen · **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 Guy of Burgundy. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Frenchmen), 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:pg75339:23:1
# text = The Frenchmen, being now safe in the Tower, refreshed themselves with food, for they had fasted long, as has been told.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Frenchmen	Frenchman	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
4	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	cop	_	_
5	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	6	advmod	_	_
6	safe	safe	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	conj	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	Tower	Tower	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	refreshed	refresh	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	themselves	themselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	11	obj	_	_
13	with	with	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
17	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
18	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	fasted	fast	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	11	parataxis	_	_
20	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	19	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
22	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
23	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
24	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	25	aux:pass	_	_
25	told	tell	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | gerund | the Frenchmen *not said here* |  |  | the Tower | now | safe *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **refresh** | past | the Frenchmen | Frenchmen *= frenchman* |  |  |  | with food | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus themselves=Experiencer |
| 3 | **fast** | past · perfect | Frenchmen *= frenchman* |  |  |  |  | long *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present · perfect · passive | Frenchmen *= frenchman* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V» |

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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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