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title: When all things had been prepared, the King and his army set out, hi… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: When all things had been prepared, the King and his army set out, his purpose being to besiege the town of Aygremont. Who acts: things, King. A sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How the Duke Benes Came By His End, with its dependency tree and 
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How the Duke Benes Came By His End, sentence 25

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When all things had been prepared, the King and his army set out, his purpose being to besiege the town of Aygremont.

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**Who acts:** things, King · **What happens:** prepare, set out, besiege, purpose · **To what, where:** things, purpose, town

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This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How the Duke Benes Came By His End. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (things, 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:pg75339:4:25
# text = When all things had been prepared, the King and his army set out, his purpose being to besiege the town of Aygremont.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	13	advmod	_	_
2	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	3	det	_	_
3	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	_
4	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	6	aux:pass	_	_
6	prepared	prepare	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	army	army	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
13	set	set	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	out	out	ADP	RP	_	13	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
16	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	purpose	purpose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
18	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	13	advcl	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	besiege	besiege	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	xcomp	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	town	town	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	Aygremont	Aygremont	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **prepare** | past · perfect · passive |  | all things *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP» |
| 2 | **set out** | past | all things | King's purpose |  |  |  | the King and King's army *nsubj* | tree rules |
| 3 | **besiege** | to-infinitive | all things *not said here* | the town of Aygremont |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **purpose** |  | King |  |  |  |  |  | nom purpose «cognition intransitive»: poss=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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