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title: Now the prison was so dark that Huon could not by any means discover… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: Now the prison was so dark that Huon could not by any means discover who they might be that had thus been brought into his company. Who acts: prison, Huon. A sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How Huon Returned, His Errand Fulfilled, with its d
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Huon Returned, His Errand Fulfilled, sentence 35

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Now the prison was so dark that Huon could not by any means discover who they might be that had thus been brought into his company.

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**Who acts:** prison, Huon · **What happens:** be, not mean, discover, bring · **To what, where:** company · **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 Returned, His Errand Fulfilled. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (prison, Huon), 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:pg75339:42:35
# text = Now the prison was so dark that Huon could not by any means discover who they might be that had thus been brought into his company.
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	6	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	prison	prison	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	so	so	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	dark	dark	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
7	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
8	Huon	Huon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
9	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
10	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	13	advmod	_	_
11	by	by	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	13	obl	_	_
13	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	advcl	_	_
14	discover	discover	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	ccomp	_	_
15	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	23	nsubj:pass	_	_
16	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj:pass	_	_
17	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
18	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	aux:pass	_	_
19	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	23	nsubj:pass	_	_
20	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
21	thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
22	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	23	aux:pass	_	_
23	brought	bring	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	parataxis	_	_
24	into	into	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	company	company	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the prison |  |  |  | now | dark *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **mean** | could | Huon |  |  |  |  | by any | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **discover** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84-1 «NP V PP.topic S\_ING»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **bring** | might · perfect · passive |  |  |  | Huon's company |  | who *nsubj:pass*; words *= word* *nsubj:pass*; that *nsubj:pass*; thus *property* | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme into company=Destination |

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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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