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title: When the body was brought in and laid down before the King he said i… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: When the body was brought in and laid down before the King he said in a loud voice, "Tell me now who has done this deed and for what cause." Who acts: King. 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 
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How King Charles Sent Huon on an Errand, sentence 70

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When the body was brought in and laid down before the King he said in a loud voice, "Tell me now who has done this deed and for what cause."

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**Who acts:** King · **What happens:** bring in, lay down, say, tell, do, cause · **To what, where:** body, loud voice, King, deed · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (King), 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:pg75339:38:70
# text = When the body was brought in and laid down before the King he said in a loud voice, "Tell me now who has done this deed and for what cause."
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	5	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	brought	bring	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	RP	_	5	compound:prt	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	laid	lay	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	conj	_	_
9	down	down	ADP	RP	_	8	compound:prt	_	_
10	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
13	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	advcl	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	loud	loud	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	voice	voice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	Tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	conj	_	_
22	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	21	iobj	_	_
23	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	21	advmod	_	_
24	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	26	nsubj	_	_
25	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
26	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	21	ccomp	_	_
27	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	28	det	_	_
28	deed	deed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
30	for	for	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	32	nsubj	_	_
32	cause	cause	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bring in** | past · passive |  | the body |  |  |  |  | vn earn-54.6 «NP V NP»: subject=Asset |
| 2 | **lay down** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the King |  |  | a loud voice |  |  | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: agent=Agent in voice=Manner |
| 4 | **tell** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | infinitive | the King *not said here* |  | the King *= king* |  | now |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent i=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 5 | **do** *in a quote* | present · perfect |  | this deed |  |  |  | who *nsubj* | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent deed=Eventuality |
| 6 | **cause** *in a quote* |  |  |  |  |  |  | what *nsubj* | tree rules |

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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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