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description: When he found himself to be alone, then, for all that he was as stout a warrior as ever bare arms, he was not a little troubled, and turned to flee. Who acts: Reynaud. A sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, More Deeds of Mawgis, with its dependen
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, More Deeds of Mawgis, sentence 13

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When he found himself to be alone, then, for all that he was as stout a warrior as ever bare arms, he was not a little troubled, and turned to flee.

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**Who acts:** Reynaud · **What happens:** find, be, not be, turn, flee · **To what, where:** Reynaud · **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, More Deeds of Mawgis. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Reynaud), 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:pg75339:9:13
# text = When he found himself to be alone, then, for all that he was as stout a warrior as ever bare arms, he was not a little troubled, and turned to flee.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	3	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	advcl	_	_
4	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	3	obj	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
6	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	cop	_	_
7	alone	alone	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
11	for	for	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
12	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	19	det:predet	_	_
13	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
14	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
15	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
16	as	as	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	stout	stout	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	19	det:predet	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	warrior	warrior	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
20	as	as	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	22	advmod	_	_
22	bare	bare	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	arms	arm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
25	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
26	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	cop	_	_
27	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	30	advmod	_	_
28	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	obl:unmarked	_	_
30	troubled	troubled	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
33	turned	turn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	conj	_	_
34	to	to	PART	TO	_	35	mark	_	_
35	flee	flee	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	33	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	30	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **find** | past | Reynaud | Reynaud |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Topic |
| 2 | **is** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  | then | alone *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | past | Reynaud |  |  |  |  | for all warrior; as bare arms | tree rules |
| 4 | **not** **is** | past | Reynaud |  |  |  |  | a little *obl:unmarked*; troubled *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **turn** | past | Reynaud *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **flee** | to-infinitive | Reynaud *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «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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