---
title: When the heathen saw these two stand together they fell back in fear… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: When the heathen saw these two stand together they fell back in fear and hurled at them spears and darts and javelins without number. Who acts: heathen, these, things. A sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How Archbishop Turpin Died, with its de
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75339/34/48/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75339/) / [How Archbishop Turpin Died](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75339/34/) / 48

# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Archbishop Turpin Died, sentence 48

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
When the heathen saw these two stand together they fell back in fear and hurled at them spears and darts and javelins without number.

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** heathen, these, things · **What happens:** see, stand together, fall back, hurl · **To what, where:** hurled spears, fear · **Speech:** someone speaks here

<!-- .vabout -->
This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How Archbishop Turpin Died. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (heathen, these, things), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

<!-- .note-en -->
**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg75339:34:48
# text = When the heathen saw these two stand together they fell back in fear and hurled at them spears and darts and javelins without number.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	heathen	heathen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	these	this	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	7	nsubj	_	_
6	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	nsubj	_	_
7	stand	stand	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	ccomp	_	_
8	together	together	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
9	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	ccomp	_	_
11	back	back	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	fear	fear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	hurled	hurl	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	amod	_	_
16	at	at	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obl	_	_
18	spears	spear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl:unmarked	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	darts	dart	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	conj	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	javelins	javelin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	conj	_	_
23	without	without	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	number	number	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | past | the heathen |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 2 | **stand together** | present | these |  |  |  |  | two *nsubj*; together *property* | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 3 | **fall back** | past | things *= thing* | hurled spears and darts and javelins |  | fear |  | without number | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in fear=Location |
| 4 | **hurl** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | at things *= thing* | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent at they=Destination |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [sentence 47](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75339/34/47/)
- next →: [sentence 49](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75339/34/49/)
- ↑ back to [How Archbishop Turpin Died](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75339/34/)