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description: And this they did to such good purpose that they made three great breaches in the wall by the least of which a cart might have passed. Who acts: this, stones. A sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Of the End of Balan the Admiral, with its depend
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the End of Balan the Admiral, sentence 11

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And this they did to such good purpose that they made three great breaches in the wall by the least of which a cart might have passed.

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**Who acts:** this, stones · **What happens:** do, such, make, pass · **To what, where:** three great breaches, wall, cart

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This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Of the End of Balan the Admiral. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (this, stones), 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:pg75339:26:11
# text = And this they did to such good purpose that they made three great breaches in the wall by the least of which a cart might have passed.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	nsubj	_	_
3	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	such	such	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	case	_	_
7	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	purpose	purpose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
9	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
10	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	_
12	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	14	nummod	_	_
13	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	breaches	breach	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	wall	wall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
18	by	by	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	least	least	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	11	obl	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	27	obl	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	cart	cart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj:pass	_	_
25	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
26	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	aux	_	_
27	passed	pass	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	20	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past | this |  |  |  |  | such good purpose; stones *= stone* *nsubj* | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **such** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **make** | past | stones *= stone* | three great breaches |  | the wall |  | by the least | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset breach=Product |
| 4 | **pass** | might · perfect · passive |  | a cart |  |  |  | which *obl* | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: subject=Theme of which=Initial\_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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