--- title: The King answered, "Maybe, Huon, I shall send you to a worse place t… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics description: The King answered, "Maybe, Huon, I shall send you to a worse place than that to which went Hercules, for of fifteen messengers that have already gone thither there has not come back to me a single one. Who acts: King, worse place, fifteen messengers. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King, worse place, fifteen messengers), 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:pg75339:38:114 # text = The King answered, "Maybe, Huon, I shall send you to a worse place than that to which went Hercules, for of fifteen messengers that have already gone thither there has not come back to me a single one. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 King King PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 answered answer VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 5 " " PUNCT `` _ 8 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 6 Maybe maybe ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 8 Huon Huon PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 10 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj _ _ 11 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 12 aux _ _ 12 send send VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 conj _ _ 13 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 12 iobj _ _ 14 to to ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 15 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 16 worse bad ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 17 amod _ _ 17 place place NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl _ _ 18 than than ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 19 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 17 nmod _ _ 20 to to ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 21 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 22 nsubj _ _ 22 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 17 acl:relcl _ _ 23 Hercules Hercules PROPN NNP Number=Sing 22 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 24 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 25 for for ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 26 of of ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 fifteen fifteen NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 28 nummod _ _ 28 messengers messenger NOUN NNS Number=Plur 37 nsubj _ _ 29 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 32 nsubj _ _ 30 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 32 aux _ _ 31 already already ADV RB _ 32 advmod _ _ 32 gone go VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 28 acl:relcl _ _ 33 thither thither ADV RB _ 34 advmod _ _ 34 there there ADV RB PronType=Dem 32 advmod _ _ 35 has have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 37 aux _ _ 36 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 37 advmod _ _ 37 come come VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 12 parataxis _ _ 38 back back ADV RB _ 37 advmod _ _ 39 to to ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 40 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 37 obl _ _ 41 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 43 det _ _ 42 single single ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 43 amod _ _ 43 one one NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 44 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **answer** *speech: assert* | past | the King | Huon | | | | | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **send** *in a quote* | shall | the King *= king* | | you | a worse place than that | | | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent you=Theme to place=Destination | | 3 | **go** *in a quote* | past | a worse place than that | Hercules | | | | | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location hercules=Theme | | 4 | **go** *in a quote* | present · perfect | fifteen messengers | | | there; thither | | | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **not** **come back** *in a quote* | present | fifteen messengers | | the King *= king* | | | a single one *parataxis* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to i=Initial\_Location | 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 113](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75339/38/113/) - next →: [sentence 115](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75339/38/115/) - ↑ back to [How King Charles Sent Huon on an Errand](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75339/38/)