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title: But the three brothers got back safe into the tower, and were greatl… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: But the three brothers got back safe into the tower, and were greatly commended by Reynaud for their valour. Who acts: three brothers, Reynaud. A sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How It Fared With the Brethren, with its dependency tree and th
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How It Fared With the Brethren, sentence 39

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But the three brothers got back safe into the tower, and were greatly commended by Reynaud for their valour.

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**Who acts:** three brothers, Reynaud · **What happens:** get back, commend

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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 (three brothers, Reynaud), 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:pg75339:5:39
# text = But the three brothers got back safe into the tower, and were greatly commended by Reynaud for their valour.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
4	brothers	brother	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	back	back	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
7	safe	safe	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	xcomp	_	_
8	into	into	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	tower	tower	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
13	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux:pass	_	_
14	greatly	greatly	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	commended	commend	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	conj	_	_
16	by	by	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	Reynaud	Reynaud	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
18	for	for	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	valour	valour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get back** | past | the three brothers |  |  |  |  | safe *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **commend** | past · passive | Reynaud |  |  |  |  | for brothers's valour; greatly *property* | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent for valour=Attribute |

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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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