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description: And so for a while the matter stood; neither could the King win the castle, nor could the brethren go free. Who acts: matter, King, brethren. 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 
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How It Fared With the Brethren, sentence 64

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And so for a while the matter stood; neither could the King win the castle, nor could the brethren go free.

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**Who acts:** matter, King, brethren · **What happens:** stand, win, go · **To what, where:** castle

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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 (matter, King, brethren), 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:pg75339:5:64
# text = And so for a while the matter stood; neither could the King win the castle, nor could the brethren go free.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
2	so	so	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
3	for	for	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	while	while	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	matter	matter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
10	neither	neither	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
11	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
14	win	win	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	parataxis	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	castle	castle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
18	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	22	cc	_	_
19	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	brethren	brethren	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
22	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	conj	_	_
23	free	free	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stand** | past | the matter |  |  |  | while |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **win** | could | the King | the castle |  |  |  | neither *property* | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent castle=Eventuality |
| 3 | **go** | could | the brethren |  |  |  |  | free *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «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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