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title: And Huon, when he had heard it, said, "I am Huon, safe, and in good… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: And Huon, when he had heard it, said, "I am Huon, safe, and in good health, thanks to the fair Esclairmonde, who is, indeed, a Christian damsel at the heart." Who acts: Huon, thanks. A sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How Huon Returned, His E
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Huon Returned, His Errand Fulfilled, sentence 39

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And Huon, when he had heard it, said, "I am Huon, safe, and in good health, thanks to the fair Esclairmonde, who is, indeed, a Christian damsel at the heart."

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**Who acts:** Huon, thanks · **What happens:** hear, say, be · **To what, where:** story, Huon · **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 (Huon, thanks), 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:pg75339:42:39
# text = And Huon, when he had heard it, said, "I am Huon, safe, and in good health, thanks to the fair Esclairmonde, who is, indeed, a Christian damsel at the heart."
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
2	Huon	Huon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
4	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	7	advmod	_	_
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
6	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	heard	hear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	2	acl:relcl	_	_
8	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
10	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
12	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
14	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
15	Huon	Huon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	safe	safe	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	list	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	health	health	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
24	thanks	thanks	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	discourse	_	_
25	to	to	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	fair	fair	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	Esclairmonde	Esclairmonde	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
30	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	31	nsubj	_	_
31	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
33	indeed	indeed	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
35	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
36	Christian	Christian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
37	damsel	damsel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	appos	_	_
38	at	at	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hear** | past · perfect | Huon | story |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Huon |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | Huon | Huon |  |  |  | good health *appos*; thanks to the fair Esclairmonde *discourse*; a Christian damsel at the heart *appos* | tree rules |
| 4 | **be** *in a quote* | present | thanks to the fair Esclairmonde |  |  |  |  | indeed *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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