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title: Splendid and terrible they were to view, so brightly shone the helme… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: Splendid and terrible they were to view, so brightly shone the helmets and bucklers and shields and spears. Who acts: hills. A sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How Charlemagne Sought Vengeance, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of e
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Charlemagne Sought Vengeance, sentence 135

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Splendid and terrible they were to view, so brightly shone the helmets and bucklers and shields and spears.

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**Who acts:** hills · **What happens:** view, shine · **To what, where:** helmets

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This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How Charlemagne Sought Vengeance. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hills), 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:pg75339:36:135
# text = Splendid and terrible they were to view, so brightly shone the helmets and bucklers and shields and spears.
1	Splendid	splendid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	advcl	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	terrible	terrible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	conj	_	_
4	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
5	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	view	view	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	so	so	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
10	brightly	brightly	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	shone	shine	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	advcl	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	helmets	helmet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	bucklers	buckler	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	conj	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	shields	shield	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	conj	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	spears	spear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **view** | past | hills *= hill* |  |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **shine** | past | hills *= hill* *not said here* | the helmets and bucklers and shields and spears |  |  |  | brightly *property* | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent helmet=Theme |

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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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