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title: Thereat there was no small outcry, but the two knights mounted on th… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: Thereat there was no small outcry, but the two knights mounted on their horses, and mingling with the crowd, so escaped. Who acts: small outcry. A sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, The Coming of Roland, with its dependency tree and the pragmat
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, The Coming of Roland, sentence 64

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Thereat there was no small outcry, but the two knights mounted on their horses, and mingling with the crowd, so escaped.

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**Who acts:** small outcry · **What happens:** be, mount, mingle, escape · **To what, where:** two knights

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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 (small outcry), 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:pg75339:6:64
# text = Thereat there was no small outcry, but the two knights mounted on their horses, and mingling with the crowd, so escaped.
1	Thereat	thereat	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	3	expl	_	_
3	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	6	det	_	_
5	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	outcry	outcry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	11	nummod	_	_
11	knights	knight	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	appos	_	_
12	mounted	mount	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	acl	_	_
13	on	on	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	horses	horse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
18	mingling	mingle	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	24	nsubj:pass	_	_
19	with	with	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	crowd	crowd	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	so	so	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	escaped	escape	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | past | no small outcry |  |  | there |  | thereat *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **mount** | participle |  | the two knights *not said here* |  |  |  | on Reynaud's horses | vn put-9.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent on horse=Destination |
| 3 | **mingle** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | with the crowd | vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V PP.co-patient»: agent=Patient with crowd=Co-Patient |
| 4 | **escape** | participle · passive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Initial\_Location |

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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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