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title: So the four went their way to Vancouleurs, not without fears, for Re… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: So the four went their way to Vancouleurs, not without fears, for Reynaud himself doubted to what the matter might grow. Who acts: four, Reynaud, matter. 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 tr
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the Treachery of King John, sentence 70

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So the four went their way to Vancouleurs, not without fears, for Reynaud himself doubted to what the matter might grow.

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**Who acts:** four, Reynaud, matter · **What happens:** go, doubt, grow · **To what, where:** way, Vancouleurs

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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 (four, Reynaud, matter), 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:pg75339:7:70
# text = So the four went their way to Vancouleurs, not without fears, for Reynaud himself doubted to what the matter might grow.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nsubj	_	_
4	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	Vancouleurs	Vancouleur	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	12	advmod	_	_
11	without	without	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	fears	fear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
15	Reynaud	Reynaud	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
16	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Emp|Reflex=Yes	15	nmod:unmarked	_	_
17	doubted	doubt	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
18	to	to	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	17	obl	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	matter	matter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
22	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
23	grow	grow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past | the four | barons's way | Vancouleurs |  |  | without fears | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location way=Theme |
| 2 | **doubt** | past | Reynaud  Reynaud |  |  |  |  | what *obl* | vn judgment-33.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **grow** | might | the matter |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «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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