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title: It befell that King Charles, going on a pilgrimage, saw this same hi… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: It befell that King Charles, going on a pilgrimage, saw this same hill with the castle built upon it, and much admiring, would know who dwelt there. Who acts: castle, much admiring. A sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, The Coming of Roland, wit
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, The Coming of Roland, sentence 9

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It befell that King Charles, going on a pilgrimage, saw this same hill with the castle built upon it, and much admiring, would know who dwelt there.

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**Who acts:** castle, much admiring · **What happens:** befall, go, see, build, know, dwell · **To what, where:** Charles, pilgrimage, same hill, castle · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (castle, much admiring), 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:pg75339:6:9
# text = It befell that King Charles, going on a pilgrimage, saw this same hill with the castle built upon it, and much admiring, would know who dwelt there.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	befell	befall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
4	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod:desc	_	_
5	Charles	Charles	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	going	go	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
8	on	on	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	pilgrimage	pilgrimage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
13	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	15	det	_	_
14	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	hill	hill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
16	with	with	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	castle	castle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
19	built	build	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	acl	_	_
20	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
24	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	admiring	admiring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
27	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
28	know	know	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	conj	_	_
29	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	30	nsubj	_	_
30	dwelt	dwell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	ccomp	_	_
31	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	30	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **befall** | past | castle | Charles  King |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **go** | gerund | castle *not said here* |  |  | a pilgrimage |  |  | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on pilgrimage=Location |
| 3 | **see** | past |  | this same hill |  |  |  | with the castle | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer hill=Stimulus |
| 4 | **build** | participle |  | the castle *not said here* |  |  |  | upon castle | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 5 | **know** | would | much admiring |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 6 | **dwell** | past |  |  |  | there |  | who *nsubj* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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