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title: And the two charged at each other and met with so great a shock that… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: And the two charged at each other and met with so great a shock that both were thrust from their saddles and fell to the ground. Who acts: two, that. A sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Of the Treachery of King John, with its dependency tree a
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the Treachery of King John, sentence 122

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And the two charged at each other and met with so great a shock that both were thrust from their saddles and fell to the ground.

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**Who acts:** two, that · **What happens:** charge, meet, be, fall · **To what, where:** each, thrust, saddles

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This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Of the Treachery of King John. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (two, that), 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:pg75339:7:122
# text = And the two charged at each other and met with so great a shock that both were thrust from their saddles and fell to the ground.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nsubj	_	_
4	charged	charge	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	at	at	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	each	each	DET	DT	ExtPos=PRON|PronType=Rcp	4	obl	_	_
7	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	fixed	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	met	meet	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
10	with	with	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
11	so	so	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	shock	shock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
15	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	18	nsubj	_	_
16	both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	18	det	_	_
17	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
18	thrust	thrust	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	_
19	from	from	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	saddles	saddle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nmod	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
24	to	to	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **charge** | participle | the two |  |  | each |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at each=Trajectory |
| 2 | **meet** | past | the two *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with a great shock and both thrust | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with shock=Co-Agent |
| 3 | **is a** | past | that | both thrust |  | shock's saddles |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **fall** | past | the two *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to the ground | vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to ground=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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