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title: When they were gone, Floripas and her damsel lifted the bridge and s… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: When they were gone, Floripas and her damsel lifted the bridge and shut fast the gates of the Tower. Who acts: arms, damsel. 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 every clause.
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of Guy of Burgundy, sentence 55

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When they were gone, Floripas and her damsel lifted the bridge and shut fast the gates of the Tower.

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**Who acts:** arms, damsel · **What happens:** be, lift · **To what, where:** bridge

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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 (arms, damsel), 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:pg75339:23:55
# text = When they were gone, Floripas and her damsel lifted the bridge and shut fast the gates of the Tower.
1	When	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	4	mark	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	gone	gone	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	Floripas	Floripas	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	vocative	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
8	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	damsel	damsel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	lifted	lift	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	bridge	bridge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	shut	shut	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	conj	_	_
15	fast	fast	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	17	advmod	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	gates	gate	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	Tower	Tower	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | arms *= arm* |  |  |  |  | Floripas *vocative*; gone *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **lift** | past | Roland's damsel | the bridge |  |  |  | the gates of the Tower *obl* | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bridge=Theme |

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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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