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title: Nay so black were they and foul to look upon that she was in no smal… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: Nay so black were they and foul to look upon that she was in no small fear of them, and was minded for a while to go back to her chamber. Who acts: men, townsfolk. A sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How It Fared With the Brethren, with its de
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How It Fared With the Brethren, sentence 112

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Nay so black were they and foul to look upon that she was in no small fear of them, and was minded for a while to go back to her chamber.

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**Who acts:** men, townsfolk · **What happens:** foul, look, be, mind, go back

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This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How It Fared With the Brethren. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (men, townsfolk), 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:pg75339:5:112
# text = Nay so black were they and foul to look upon that she was in no small fear of them, and was minded for a while to go back to her chamber.
1	Nay	nay	INTJ	UH	_	3	discourse	_	_
2	so	so	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	csubj	_	_
4	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
5	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	foul	foul	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	xcomp	_	_
10	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
11	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	10	fixed	_	_
12	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
13	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	17	det	_	_
16	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	fear	fear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
22	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux:pass	_	_
23	minded	mind	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	conj	_	_
24	for	for	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	while	while	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
27	to	to	PART	TO	_	28	mark	_	_
28	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	advcl	_	_
29	back	back	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
30	to	to	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	32	nmod:poss	_	_
32	chamber	chamber	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **foul** | past | men *= man* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **look** | to-infinitive | men *= man* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 3 | **is** | past | townsfolk |  |  |  |  | upon no small fear; of men *= man* | tree rules |
| 4 | **mind** | past · passive | men *= man* *not said here* |  |  |  | while |  | vn care-88.1 «NP V» |
| 5 | **go back** | to-infinitive | men *= man* *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to townsfolk's chamber *result* | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient to chamber=Result |

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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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