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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Huon Met With King Oberon, sentence 51

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But afterwards repenting said, 'Though this be so, yet there shall not be a fairer child than he."

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**Who acts:** this · **What happens:** repent, say, be · **To what, where:** fairer child · **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 Huon Met With King Oberon. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (this), 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:pg75339:39:51
# text = But afterwards repenting said, 'Though this be so, yet there shall not be a fairer child than he."
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	afterwards	afterwards	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
3	repenting	repent	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	said	say	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	Though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
8	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	19	nsubj	_	_
9	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	cop	_	_
10	so	so	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
12	yet	yet	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
13	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	16	expl	_	_
14	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
15	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	16	advmod	_	_
16	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	cop	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	fairer	fair	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	19	amod	_	_
19	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	parataxis	_	_
20	than	than	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	19	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **repent** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | participle · passive |  |  |  |  |  | afterwards *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: subject=Topic |
| 3 | **is a** | infinitive | this | a fairer child |  |  |  | than Oberon | 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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