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title: Rather should I have fled away and hidden myself as best I could." — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: Rather should I have fled away and hidden myself as best I could." 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.
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How King Charles Sent Huon on an Errand, sentence 75

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Rather should I have fled away and hidden myself as best I could."

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**What happens:** flee away, hide · **To what, where:** Rather, myself

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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: 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:pg75339:38:75
# text = Rather should I have fled away and hidden myself as best I could."
1	Rather	rather	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
3	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	aux	_	_
5	fled	flee	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	away	away	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	hidden	hide	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	conj	_	_
9	myself	myself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Emp|Reflex=Yes	8	obl:unmarked	_	_
10	as	as	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	best	good	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	13	nmod	_	_
12	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **flee away** | should · perfect · passive |  | Rather |  |  |  | I *nsubj*; away *property* | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **hide** | participle |  | myself |  |  |  |  | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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