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title: When the King heard these words he would have fallen on Huon and sla… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: When the King heard these words he would have fallen on Huon and slain him, only the Duke Naymes and others of his Barons held him back. Who acts: King, Duke Naymes. A sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How King Charles Sent Huon on an Errand, 
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How King Charles Sent Huon on an Errand, sentence 73

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When the King heard these words he would have fallen on Huon and slain him, only the Duke Naymes and others of his Barons held him back.

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**Who acts:** King, Duke Naymes · **What happens:** hear, fall, slain, hold back · **To what, where:** words, Huon, King

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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, Duke Naymes), 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:pg75339:38:73
# text = When the King heard these words he would have fallen on Huon and slain him, only the Duke Naymes and others of his Barons held him back.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	heard	hear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	advcl	_	_
5	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	6	det	_	_
6	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
7	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
8	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
9	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	aux	_	_
10	fallen	fall	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	6	acl:relcl	_	_
11	on	on	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	Huon	Huon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	slain	slain	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	conj	_	_
15	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	only	only	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	Duke	Duke	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	Naymes	Naymes	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	others	other	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	conj	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	Barons	baron	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nmod	_	_
26	held	hold	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
27	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	obj	_	_
28	back	back	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	26	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hear** | past | the King | this words |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer word=Stimulus |
| 2 | **fall** | would · perfect | King | this words *not said here* |  | Huon |  |  | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient word=Result |
| 3 | **slain** | infinitive | King *not said here* | King |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **hold back** | past | the Duke Naymes and others of King's Barons | King |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |

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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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