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title: Then King Charles went with his lords into a chamber apart, and took… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: Then King Charles went with his lords into a chamber apart, and took counsel with them what should be done. Who acts: Charles. 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 the pragmatics 
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How the Duke Benes Came By His End, sentence 72

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Then King Charles went with his lords into a chamber apart, and took counsel with them what should be done.

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**Who acts:** Charles · **What happens:** go, take, do · **To what, where:** chamber, counsel

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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 (Charles), 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:pg75339:4:72
# text = Then King Charles went with his lords into a chamber apart, and took counsel with them what should be done.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
2	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod:desc	_	_
3	Charles	Charles	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	lords	lord	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
8	into	into	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	chamber	chamber	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
11	apart	apart	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
15	counsel	counsel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
16	with	with	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obl	_	_
18	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	21	obj	_	_
19	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
20	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	aux:pass	_	_
21	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past | Charles  King |  |  | a chamber | then | with King's lords | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into chamber=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **take** | past | Charles  King *not said here* | counsel |  |  |  | with chief | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent counsel=Theme |
| 3 | **do** | should · passive |  |  |  |  |  | what *obj* | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: what=Eventuality |

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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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