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title: The fellow had feigned death, and had laid himself down among the sl… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: The fellow had feigned death, and had laid himself down among the slain, having covered his body and his face with blood. A sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, The Death of Roland, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, The Death of Roland, sentence 6

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The fellow had feigned death, and had laid himself down among the slain, having covered his body and his face with blood.

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**What happens:** feign, lay down, cover · **To what, where:** fellow, Roland, slain, body

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This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, The Death of Roland. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:pg75339:35:6
# text = The fellow had feigned death, and had laid himself down among the slain, having covered his body and his face with blood.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	fellow	fellow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	feigned	feign	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
8	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	laid	lay	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	4	conj	_	_
10	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	9	obj	_	_
11	down	down	ADP	RP	_	9	compound:prt	_	_
12	among	among	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	slain	slain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	having	have	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	17	aux	_	_
17	covered	cover	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
18	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
21	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	_
23	with	with	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	blood	blood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **feign** | past · perfect · passive |  | the fellow |  |  |  | death *obj* | tree rules |
| 2 | **lay down** | past · perfect |  | Roland |  | the slain |  |  | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent himself=Theme among slain=Destination |
| 3 | **cover** | gerund · perfect |  | Roland's body and Roland's face with blood |  |  |  |  | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme body=Destination |

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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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