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title: The Princes are young, and, maybe, they have not failed in their dut… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: The Princes are young, and, maybe, they have not failed in their duty to you of set purpose, but rather unknowingly. Who acts: Princes, sons. 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
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How King Charles Sent Huon on an Errand, sentence 13

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The Princes are young, and, maybe, they have not failed in their duty to you of set purpose, but rather unknowingly.

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**Who acts:** Princes, sons · **What happens:** be, not fail · **To what, where:** duty

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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: who acts (Princes, sons), 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:pg75339:38:13
# text = The Princes are young, and, maybe, they have not failed in their duty to you of set purpose, but rather unknowingly.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Princes	prince	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
8	maybe	maybe	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
11	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
12	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	13	advmod	_	_
13	failed	fail	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	4	conj	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	duty	duty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
17	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	16	nmod	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	set	set	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	purpose	purpose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
23	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
24	rather	rather	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
25	unknowingly	unknowingly	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | the Princes |  |  |  |  | unknowingly, young *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **fail** | present · perfect | sons *= son* |  |  | sons's duty to you of set purpose |  | maybe *property* | vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V PP.eventuality S\_ING»: agent=Agent in duty=Eventuality |

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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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