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title: And when he had said this he looked round on that fair company of th… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: And when he had said this he looked round on that fair company of the dead, and his heart failed within him. Who acts: Roland, this, heart. A sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How Archbishop Turpin Died, with its dependency tree and the pragma
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Archbishop Turpin Died, sentence 76

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And when he had said this he looked round on that fair company of the dead, and his heart failed within him.

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**Who acts:** Roland, this, heart · **What happens:** say, look round, fail · **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, 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 (Roland, this, heart), 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:pg75339:34:76
# text = And when he had said this he looked round on that fair company of the dead, and his heart failed within him.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	5	advmod	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	said	say	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
6	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	8	nsubj	_	_
7	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	ccomp	_	_
9	round	round	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
10	on	on	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	13	det	_	_
12	fair	fair	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	company	company	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
19	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
21	failed	fail	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
22	within	within	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past · perfect | Roland |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **look round** | past | this |  |  |  |  | on that fair company of the dead; Roland *nsubj*; round *property* | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent on company=Theme |
| 3 | **fail** | past | Roland's heart |  |  |  |  | within Roland | vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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