Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Opening, sentence 35
The story of Huon is peculiarly interesting to us because it introduces the fairy King Oberon, who was to become so important a figure in English literature.
Who acts: story, death, fairy King Oberon · What happens: be, introduce, become · To what, where: us, fairy King Oberon
This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Opening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (story, death, fairy King Oberon), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 story | det |
| 2 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 interesting | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 Huon | case |
| 4 | Huon | Huon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 story | nmod |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 interesting | cop |
| 6 | peculiarly | peculiarly | ADV | _ | 7 interesting | advmod |
| 7 | interesting | interesting | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 us | case |
| 9 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 interesting | obl |
| 10 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 12 introduces | mark |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 introduces | nsubj |
| 12 | introduces | introduce | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 interesting | advcl |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Oberon | det |
| 14 | fairy | fairy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 Oberon | amod |
| 15 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Oberon | compound |
| 16 | Oberon | Oberon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 introduces | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 become | punct |
| 18 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 become | nsubj |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 become | aux |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 become | mark |
| 21 | become | become | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 Oberon | acl:relcl |
| 22 | so | so | ADV | _ | 23 important | advmod |
| 23 | important | important | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 become | xcomp |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 figure | det |
| 25 | figure | figure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 important | nsubj |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 literature | case |
| 27 | English | English | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 literature | amod |
| 28 | literature | literature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 important | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 interesting | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the story of Huon | us | interesting, peculiarly property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | introduce | present | death | the fairy King Oberon | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent oberon=Patient | ||||
| 3 | become | past | the fairy King Oberon | the fairy King Oberon not said here | important property | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
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.
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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