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title: And lo! the stream ran as swiftly as a bolt from a cross-bow, with a… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: And lo! the stream ran as swiftly as a bolt from a cross-bow, with a noise like to thunder. Who acts: stream. A sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Of Richard of Normandy, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of Richard of Normandy, sentence 87

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And lo! the stream ran as swiftly as a bolt from a cross-bow, with a noise like to thunder.

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**Who acts:** stream · **What happens:** run · **To what, where:** cross-bow

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This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Of Richard of Normandy. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (stream), 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:pg75339:24:87
# text = And lo! the stream ran as swiftly as a bolt from a cross-bow, with a noise like to thunder.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
2	lo	lo	INTJ	UH	_	6	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	stream	stream	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	ran	run	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	as	as	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	swiftly	swiftly	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
9	as	as	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	bolt	bolt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
12	from	from	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	cross-bow	cross-bow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	with	with	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	noise	noise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	parataxis	_	_
19	like	like	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	to	to	PART	TO	_	21	mark	_	_
21	thunder	thunder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **run** | past | the stream |  |  | a cross-bow |  | as a bolt; a noise like thunder *parataxis*; swiftly *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from cross-bow=Trajectory |

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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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