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title: In the van and the rear sounded the trumpets as though they would an… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: In the van and the rear sounded the trumpets as though they would answer Roland's horn. Who acts: trumpets. A sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How Roland Sounded His Horn, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Roland Sounded His Horn, sentence 57

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In the van and the rear sounded the trumpets as though they would answer Roland's horn.

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**Who acts:** trumpets · **What happens:** sound, answer · **To what, where:** trumpets, van, horn

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This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How Roland Sounded His Horn. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (trumpets), 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:pg75339:32:57
# text = In the van and the rear sounded the trumpets as though they would answer Roland's horn.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	van	van	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	rear	rear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
7	sounded	sound	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	trumpets	trumpet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
10	as	as	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
11	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
12	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
13	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	answer	answer	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	advcl	_	_
15	Roland	Roland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	's	's	PART	POS	_	15	case	_	_
17	horn	horn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sound** | past |  | the trumpets |  | the van and the rear |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location trumpet=Theme |
| 2 | **answer** *speech: assert* | would | trumpets *= trumpet* | Roland's horn |  |  |  |  | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent horn=Eventuality |

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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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