---
title: But the King, moved by certain of his counsellors, would promise no… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: But the King, moved by certain of his counsellors, would promise no such thing. Who acts: King. 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 the pragmatics of every clause.
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75339/5/63/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75339/) / [How It Fared With the Brethren](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75339/5/) / 63

# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How It Fared With the Brethren, sentence 63

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
But the King, moved by certain of his counsellors, would promise no such thing.

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** King · **What happens:** move, promise · **To what, where:** King, such thing

<!-- .vabout -->
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 (King), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

<!-- .note-en -->
**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg75339:5:63
# text = But the King, moved by certain of his counsellors, would promise no such thing.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	moved	move	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	3	acl	_	_
6	by	by	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	certain	certain	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	obl	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	counsellors	counsellor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
12	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	promise	promise	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
14	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	16	det	_	_
15	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **move** | participle |  | the King *not said here* |  |  |  | by certain of King's counsellors | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme by certain=Trajectory |
| 2 | **promise** *speech: promise* | would | the King | no such thing |  |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent thing=Theme |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [sentence 62](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75339/5/62/)
- next →: [sentence 64](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75339/5/64/)
- ↑ back to [How It Fared With the Brethren](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75339/5/)