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title: When the King heard this he commanded that the army should leave mar… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: When the King heard this he commanded that the army should leave marching to Aygremont, and should turn aside to Troyes. Who acts: King, army. 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 30

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When the King heard this he commanded that the army should leave marching to Aygremont, and should turn aside to Troyes.

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**Who acts:** King, army · **What happens:** hear, command, leave, march, turn · **To what, where:** this, Aygremont, Troyes · **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 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 (King, army), 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:pg75339:4:30
# text = When the King heard this he commanded that the army should leave marching to Aygremont, and should turn aside to Troyes.
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	0	root	_	_
5	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	obj	_	_
6	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	commanded	command	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
8	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	army	army	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
11	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	leave	leave	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	ccomp	_	_
13	marching	march	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	12	xcomp	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	Aygremont	Aygremont	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
18	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	turn	turn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
20	aside	aside	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
21	to	to	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	Troyes	troy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer this=Stimulus |
| 2 | **command** | past | King |  |  |  |  |  | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **leave** | should | the army |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **march** | gerund | the army *not said here* |  | Aygremont |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to aygremont=Result |
| 5 | **turn** | should | the King *not said here* |  |  | Troyes |  | aside *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme to troy=Trajectory |

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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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