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title: And when he saw how the head was severed from the body and the face… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: And when he saw how the head was severed from the body and the face sore disfigured with wounds he cried aloud. Who acts: King, face. A sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, The Slaying of Lothair, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ev
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, The Slaying of Lothair, sentence 104

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And when he saw how the head was severed from the body and the face sore disfigured with wounds he cried aloud.

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**Who acts:** King, face · **What happens:** see, sever, disfigure, cry · **To what, where:** head, body, wounds · **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 Slaying of Lothair. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King, face), 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:pg75339:3:104
# text = And when he saw how the head was severed from the body and the face sore disfigured with wounds he cried aloud.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	9	advmod	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj:pass	_	_
8	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux:pass	_	_
9	severed	sever	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	ccomp	_	_
10	from	from	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
16	sore	sore	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
17	disfigured	disfigure	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	conj	_	_
18	with	with	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	wounds	wound	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	_
20	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	acl:relcl	_	_
22	aloud	aloud	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | past | King |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 2 | **sever** | past · passive |  | the head |  | the body |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP PP»: subject=Theme from body=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **disfigure** | participle | the face |  |  |  |  | with wounds | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with wound=Instrument |
| 4 | **cry** *speech: express* | past | King | wounds *not said here* |  |  |  | aloud *property* | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wound=Topic |

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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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