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title: And when Huon was set before him, it could be seen that he was in go… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: And when Huon was set before him, it could be seen that he was in good case, though somewhat pale because of being shut up. " Who acts: 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 dependency tree
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Huon Returned, His Errand Fulfilled, sentence 58

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And when Huon was set before him, it could be seen that he was in good case, though somewhat pale because of being shut up. "

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**Who acts:** Huon · **What happens:** set, see, be, shut up · **To what, where:** Huon, company, good case

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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), 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:pg75339:42:58
# text = And when Huon was set before him, it could be seen that he was in good case, though somewhat pale because of being shut up. "
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	5	advmod	_	_
3	Huon	Huon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	set	set	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	before	before	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj:pass	_	_
10	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
11	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	aux:pass	_	_
12	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	conj	_	_
13	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
14	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
15	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	case	case	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
21	somewhat	somewhat	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	pale	pale	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	conj	_	_
23	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	fixed	_	_
25	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	26	aux:pass	_	_
26	shut	shut	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	22	advcl	_	_
27	up	up	ADP	RP	_	26	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
29	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **set** | past · passive |  | Huon |  |  | before Admiral |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme before he=Destination |
| 2 | **see** | could · passive |  | company |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus |
| 3 | **is** | past | Huon |  |  | good case |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **shut up** | gerund · passive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP» |

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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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