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title: He has done as well as it lay with him to do; doubtless he was aslee… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: He has done as well as it lay with him to do; doubtless he was asleep when your treasures were spoiled. Who acts: treasure, Tower, your. 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 eve
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of Guy of Burgundy, sentence 114

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He has done as well as it lay with him to do; doubtless he was asleep when your treasures were spoiled.

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**Who acts:** treasure, Tower, your · **What happens:** do, lie, doubtless, be, spoil, treasure · **To what, where:** treasures

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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 (treasure, Tower, your), 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:pg75339:23:114
# text = He has done as well as it lay with him to do; doubtless he was asleep when your treasures were spoiled.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
4	as	as	ADV	RB	ExtPos=ADV	3	advmod	_	_
5	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	4	fixed	_	_
6	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
7	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	lay	lie	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
9	with	with	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	obl	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	doubtless	doubtless	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
15	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
16	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
17	asleep	asleep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	ccomp	_	_
18	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	22	mark	_	_
19	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	treasures	treasure	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nsubj:pass	_	_
21	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux:pass	_	_
22	spoiled	spoil	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | present · perfect | treasure |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **lie** | past | Tower |  |  |  |  | with treasure | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **do** | to-infinitive | Tower *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **doubtless** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **is** | past | treasure |  |  |  |  | asleep *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **spoil** | past · passive |  | your treasures |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **treasure** |  | your |  |  |  |  |  | nom treasure «possession transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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