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title: As these two were talking, Fierabras came up, being now healed of hi… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: As these two were talking, Fierabras came up, being now healed of his wounds, and asked where was the King. Who acts: two, Fierabras. 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 pragma
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How the Bridge Mantryble Was Won, sentence 59

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As these two were talking, Fierabras came up, being now healed of his wounds, and asked where was the King.

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**Who acts:** two, Fierabras · **What happens:** talk, come up, heal, ask, be, wound · **To what, where:** King · **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, 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 (two, Fierabras), 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:pg75339:25:59
# text = As these two were talking, Fierabras came up, being now healed of his wounds, and asked where was the King.
1	As	as	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
2	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
3	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	nsubj	_	_
4	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	talking	talk	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	8	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
7	Fierabras	Fierabras	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	up	up	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	13	aux:pass	_	_
12	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	13	advmod	_	_
13	healed	heal	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	conj	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	wounds	wound	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	asked	ask	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	parataxis	_	_
20	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	23	advmod	_	_
21	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **talk** | past · progressive | this two |  |  |  |  |  | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **come up** | past | Fierabras |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **heal** | gerund · passive | Fierabras *not said here* |  |  |  | now | of Fierabras's wounds | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V» |
| 4 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **is a** | past |  | the King |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **wound** |  | Fierabras |  |  |  |  |  | nom wound «state 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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