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" **Who acts:** Reynaud, yeoman, King · **What happens:** hear, laugh, say, see, run, go · **To what, where:** proclamation, good race, world, Paris, prize · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, The Coming of Roland. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Reynaud, yeoman, King), 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:pg75339:6:31 # text = When Reynaud heard it, he laughed and said: "Now shall the King see as good a race as ever was run in the world, for I will go to Paris with Bayard and win this prize." " 1 When when ADV WRB PronType=Int 3 advmod _ _ 2 Reynaud Reynaud PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 heard hear VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 advcl _ _ 4 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 6 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 7 nsubj _ _ 7 laughed laugh VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 9 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 10 : : PUNCT : _ 16 punct _ _ 11 " " PUNCT `` _ 16 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 12 Now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 16 advmod _ _ 13 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 16 aux _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 King King PROPN NNP Number=Sing 16 nsubj _ _ 16 see see VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 ccomp _ _ 17 as as ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 18 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 19 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 race race NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obj _ _ 21 as as SCONJ IN _ 24 mark _ _ 22 ever ever ADV RB PronType=Ind 24 advmod _ _ 23 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 24 aux:pass _ _ 24 run run VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 16 ccomp _ _ 25 in in ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 world world NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 28 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 29 for for SCONJ IN _ 32 mark _ _ 30 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 32 nsubj _ _ 31 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 32 aux _ _ 32 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 16 conj _ _ 33 to to ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 34 Paris Paris PROPN NNP Number=Sing 32 obl _ _ 35 with with ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 36 Bayard Bayard PROPN NNP Number=Sing 32 obl _ _ 37 and and CCONJ CC _ 38 cc _ _ 38 win win VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 conj _ _ 39 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 40 det _ _ 40 prize prize NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 41 . . PUNCT . _ 16 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 42 " " PUNCT '' _ 16 punct _ _ 43 " " PUNCT '' _ 7 punct _ SpaceAfter=No ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **hear** | past | Reynaud | proclamation | | | | | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus | | 2 | **laugh** | past | yeoman | | | | | | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | yeoman *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 4 | **see** *in a quote* | shall | the King | a good race | | | now | | tree rules | | 5 | **run** *in a quote* | past · passive | | | | the world | ever | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: in world=Trajectory | | 6 | **go** *in a quote* | future | yeoman | | | Paris | | with Bayard | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to paris=Initial\_Location | | 7 | **win** *in a quote* | present | the King *not said here* | this prize | | | | | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prize=Eventuality | 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 30](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75339/6/30/) - next →: [sentence 32](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75339/6/32/) - ↑ back to [The Coming of Roland](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75339/6/)