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description: Then seeing that the King had fallen with his head awry, he took a pillow and set it under him. Who acts: King. A sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, More Deeds of Mawgis, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, More Deeds of Mawgis, sentence 48

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Then seeing that the King had fallen with his head awry, he took a pillow and set it under him.

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**Who acts:** King · **What happens:** see, fall, take, set · **To what, where:** pillow · **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 (King), 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:pg75339:9:48
# text = Then seeing that the King had fallen with his head awry, he took a pillow and set it under him.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	2	advmod	_	_
2	seeing	see	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	advcl	_	_
3	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
6	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	fallen	fall	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	2	ccomp	_	_
8	with	with	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
11	awry	awry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
13	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	pillow	pillow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	set	set	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	conj	_	_
19	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obj	_	_
20	under	under	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | gerund | King *not said here* |  |  |  | then |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 2 | **fall** | past · perfect | the King |  |  |  |  | with King's head; awry *property* | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **take** | past | King | a pillow |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pillow=Theme |
| 4 | **set** | infinitive | King *not said here* | pillow |  |  |  | under King | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme under he=Destination |

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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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