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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How King Charles Sent Huon on an Errand, sentence 1

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King Charles, being now advanced in years and desiring rest, was minded to lay down his power.

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**What happens:** advance, desire, mind, lay down · **To what, where:** Charles, rest, power

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This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How King Charles Sent Huon on an Errand. 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:pg75339:38:1
# text = King Charles, being now advanced in years and desiring rest, was minded to lay down his power.
1	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod:desc	_	_
2	Charles	Charles	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
4	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	aux:pass	_	_
5	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	6	advmod	_	_
6	advanced	advance	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	desiring	desire	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	conj	_	_
11	rest	rest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
13	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux:pass	_	_
14	minded	mind	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	lay	lay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	xcomp	_	_
17	down	down	ADP	RP	_	16	compound:prt	_	_
18	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	power	power	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **advance** | gerund · passive |  | Charles  King *not said here* |  |  | now; year |  | vn caused\_calibratable\_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle» |
| 2 | **desire** | gerund |  | rest |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot rest=Theme |
| 3 | **mind** | past · passive |  | Charles  King |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **lay down** | to-infinitive |  | Charles's power |  |  |  |  | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent power=Result |

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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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