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title: A wonderful beast was he in this as in other things, being as well n… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: A wonderful beast was he in this as in other things, being as well nourished by roots as other horses are wont to be by hay and corn. Who acts: wonderful beast, roots, other horses. A sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How It Fared With the Bre
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How It Fared With the Brethren, sentence 96

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A wonderful beast was he in this as in other things, being as well nourished by roots as other horses are wont to be by hay and corn.

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**Who acts:** wonderful beast, roots, other horses · **What happens:** be, nourish · **To what, where:** King, this, other things

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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 (wonderful beast, roots, other horses), 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:pg75339:5:96
# text = A wonderful beast was he in this as in other things, being as well nourished by roots as other horses are wont to be by hay and corn.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	wonderful	wonderful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	beast	beast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	0	root	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	obl	_	_
8	as	as	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	16	aux:pass	_	_
14	as	as	ADV	RB	ExtPos=CCONJ	16	cc	_	_
15	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	14	fixed	_	_
16	nourished	nourish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	acl:relcl	_	_
17	by	by	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	roots	root	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	_
19	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
20	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	horses	horse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nsubj	_	_
22	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
23	wont	wont	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	advcl	_	_
24	to	to	PART	TO	_	27	mark	_	_
25	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	cop	_	_
26	by	by	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	hay	hay	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	ccomp	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	corn	corn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | a wonderful beast | King |  | this |  | as other things | tree rules |
| 2 | **nourish** | gerund · passive | roots | other things *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is** | present | other horses |  |  |  |  | wont *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **is** | to-infinitive | other horses *not said here* |  |  |  |  | by hay and corn; corn *conj* | tree rules |

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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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