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title: The Saracen cast his eyes on Ganelon, and saw that he was of a fair… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: The Saracen cast his eyes on Ganelon, and saw that he was of a fair countenance, but had an evil look. Who acts: Saracen, Blancandrin. A sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, The Treason of Ganelon, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of e
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, The Treason of Ganelon, sentence 27

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The Saracen cast his eyes on Ganelon, and saw that he was of a fair countenance, but had an evil look.

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**Who acts:** Saracen, Blancandrin · **What happens:** cast, see, be, have · **To what, where:** eyes, Ganelon, evil look · **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, The Treason of Ganelon. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Saracen, Blancandrin), 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:pg75339:28:27
# text = The Saracen cast his eyes on Ganelon, and saw that he was of a fair countenance, but had an evil look.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Saracen	Saracen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	cast	cast	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
6	on	on	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	Ganelon	Ganelon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
11	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
12	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
13	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	fair	fair	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	countenance	countenance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
21	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	evil	evil	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	look	look	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cast** | past | the Saracen | Blancandrin's eyes |  | Ganelon |  |  | vn throw-17.1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent eye=Theme on ganelon=Destination |
| 2 | **see** | past | the Saracen *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **is** | past | Blancandrin |  |  |  |  | of a fair countenance | tree rules |
| 4 | **have** | past | the Saracen *not said here* | a evil look |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent look=Patient |

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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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