---
title: Then said one knight, "See here the horse that will win the prize,"… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: Then said one knight, "See here the horse that will win the prize," and another said, "Verily, he will win, if God so favour him." Who acts: horse, knight, God. A sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, The Coming of Roland, with its dependency tree
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75339/6/67/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75339/) / [The Coming of Roland](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75339/6/) / 67

# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, The Coming of Roland, sentence 67

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Then said one knight, "See here the horse that will win the prize," and another said, "Verily, he will win, if God so favour him."

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** horse, knight, God · **What happens:** say, see, win, favour · **To what, where:** one knight, horse, prize, another, knight · **Speech:** someone speaks here

<!-- .vabout -->
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 (horse, knight, God), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

<!-- .note-en -->
**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg75339:6:67
# text = Then said one knight, "See here the horse that will win the prize," and another said, "Verily, he will win, if God so favour him."
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	2	advmod	_	_
2	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
4	knight	knight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	See	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	ccomp	_	_
8	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	7	advmod	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
11	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	13	nsubj	_	_
12	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	win	win	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	acl:relcl	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	prize	prize	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
19	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	20	nsubj:pass	_	_
20	said	say	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	Verily	verily	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
25	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
26	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
27	win	win	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
29	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	32	mark	_	_
30	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	nsubj	_	_
31	so	so	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
32	favour	favour	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	conj	_	_
33	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	27	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past |  | one knight |  |  | then |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **see** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | the horse |  | here |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer horse=Stimulus |
| 3 | **win** *in a quote* | future | the horse | the prize |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prize=Eventuality |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | participle · passive |  | another |  |  |  | verily *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: subject=Topic |
| 5 | **win** *in a quote* | future | knight |  |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **favour** *in a quote* | infinitive | God | knight |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [sentence 66](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75339/6/66/)
- next →: [sentence 68](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75339/6/68/)
- ↑ back to [The Coming of Roland](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75339/6/)