--- title: This stroke he missed, yet made a great wound, so that the blood flo… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics description: This stroke he missed, yet made a great wound, so that the blood flowed down. Who acts: stroke, blood. A sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How King Charles Sent Huon on an Errand, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75339/38/103/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75339/) / [How King Charles Sent Huon on an Errand](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75339/38/) / 103 # Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How King Charles Sent Huon on an Errand, sentence 103 This stroke he missed, yet made a great wound, so that the blood flowed down. **Who acts:** stroke, blood · **What happens:** miss, make, flow down · **To what, where:** great wound 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: who acts (stroke, blood), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg75339:38:103 # text = This stroke he missed, yet made a great wound, so that the blood flowed down. 1 This this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 2 det _ _ 2 stroke stroke NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 3 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 4 missed miss VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 6 yet yet CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 7 made make VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 ccomp _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 9 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 wound wound NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 12 so so SCONJ IN ExtPos=SCONJ 16 mark _ _ 13 that that SCONJ IN _ 12 fixed _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 blood blood NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nsubj _ _ 16 flowed flow VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 17 down down ADP RP _ 16 compound:prt _ SpaceAfter=No 18 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **miss** | past | this stroke | | | | | | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | | 2 | **make** | past | this stroke *not said here* | a great wound | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset wound=Product | | 3 | **flow down** | past | the blood | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 102](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75339/38/102/) - next →: [sentence 104](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75339/38/104/) - ↑ back to [How King Charles Sent Huon on an Errand](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75339/38/)