--- title: After awhile, the other knights that were in the castle taking heart… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics description: After awhile, the other knights that were in the castle taking heart and coming to help them, they drove out the enemy from the castle, and shut the gates and raised the drawbridge. Who acts: other knights, castle, knights. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (other knights, castle, knights), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg75339:5:85 # text = After awhile, the other knights that were in the castle taking heart and coming to help them, they drove out the enemy from the castle, and shut the gates and raised the drawbridge. 1 After after ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 awhile awhile ADV RB _ 30 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 knights knight NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 nsubj _ _ 7 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 11 nsubj _ _ 8 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 cop _ _ 9 in in ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 castle castle NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 acl:relcl _ _ 12 taking take VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 11 acl _ _ 13 heart heart NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obj _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 15 coming come VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 12 conj _ _ 16 to to PART TO _ 17 mark _ _ 17 help help VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 15 advcl _ _ 18 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 20 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 21 drove drive VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 conj _ _ 22 out out ADP RP _ 21 compound:prt _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 enemy enemy NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obj _ _ 25 from from ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 castle castle NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 28 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 30 shut shut VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 gates gate NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 obj _ _ 33 and and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 34 raised raise VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 30 conj _ _ 35 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 36 drawbridge drawbridge NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 37 . . PUNCT . _ 30 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | past | the other knights | | | the castle | | | tree rules | | 2 | **take** | gerund | the castle *not said here* | heart | | | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heart=Theme | | 3 | **come** | gerund | the castle *not said here* | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **help** | to-infinitive | the castle *not said here* | knights *= knight* | | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Beneficiary | | 5 | **drive out** | past | knights *= knight* | the enemy | | the castle | | | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent enemy=Theme from castle=Trajectory | | 6 | **shut** | infinitive | the other knights | the gates | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent gate=Patient | | 7 | **raise** | past | the other knights *not said here* | the drawbridge | | | | | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent drawbridge=Theme | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 84](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75339/5/84/) - next →: [sentence 86](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75339/5/86/) - ↑ back to [How It Fared With the Brethren](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75339/5/)