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title: Thereupon Richard let fall the drawbridge, and the five hundred soug… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: Thereupon Richard let fall the drawbridge, and the five hundred sought to pass over it. Who acts: Richard. A sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How the Bridge Mantryble Was Won, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How the Bridge Mantryble Was Won, sentence 34

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Thereupon Richard let fall the drawbridge, and the five hundred sought to pass over it.

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**Who acts:** Richard · **What happens:** let, fall, seek, pass · **To what, where:** drawbridge, five hundred

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This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How the Bridge Mantryble Was Won. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Richard), 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:pg75339:25:34
# text = Thereupon Richard let fall the drawbridge, and the five hundred sought to pass over it.
1	Thereupon	thereupon	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	Richard	Richard	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	let	let	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	fall	fall	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	drawbridge	drawbridge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	11	compound	_	_
11	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	12	nsubj:pass	_	_
12	sought	seek	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	pass	pass	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	xcomp	_	_
15	over	over	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **let** | past | Richard |  |  |  |  | thereupon *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **fall** | infinitive | Richard *not said here* | the drawbridge |  |  |  |  | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient drawbridge=Result |
| 3 | **seek** | participle · passive |  | the five hundred |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **pass** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive |  |  |  | drawbridge |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme over it=Location |

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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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