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title: They suffered the gates to be broken down without any hindrance, and… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: They suffered the gates to be broken down without any hindrance, and the Queen surrendered to King Charles all the towers, great and small. Who acts: people, Queen. A sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How Charlemagne Sought Vengeance, with its
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Charlemagne Sought Vengeance, sentence 210

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They suffered the gates to be broken down without any hindrance, and the Queen surrendered to King Charles all the towers, great and small.

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**Who acts:** people, Queen · **What happens:** suffer, break down, surrender · **To what, where:** gates, towers, Charles

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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 (people, Queen), 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:pg75339:36:210
# text = They suffered the gates to be broken down without any hindrance, and the Queen surrendered to King Charles all the towers, great and small.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	suffered	suffer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	gates	gate	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
6	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	aux:pass	_	_
7	broken	break	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	ccomp	_	_
8	down	down	ADP	RP	_	7	compound:prt	_	_
9	without	without	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	11	det	_	_
11	hindrance	hindrance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	Queen	Queen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
16	surrendered	surrender	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
17	to	to	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nmod:desc	_	_
19	Charles	Charles	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
20	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	22	det:predet	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	towers	tower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
24	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **suffer** | past | people | the gates |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **break down** | to-infinitive · passive | people *not said here* |  |  |  |  | without any hindrance | vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V» |
| 3 | **surrender** | past | the Queen | all towers | Charles  King |  |  |  | vn contribute-13.2-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to charles=Recipient |

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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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