Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Huon Met With King Oberon, sentence 20
This Oberon is very pleasant to look upon, and his voice very sweet, but be sure that you do not speak to him, for he that speaks to him is lost for ever.
Who acts: Oberon, voice, you, road · What happens: be, look, not speak, speak, lose · To what, where: road · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How Huon Met With King Oberon. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Oberon, voice, you, road), 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 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 Oberon | det |
| 2 | Oberon | Oberon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 pleasant | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 pleasant | cop |
| 4 | very | very | ADV | _ | 5 pleasant | advmod |
| 5 | pleasant | pleasant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 look | mark |
| 7 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 pleasant | advcl |
| 8 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 7 look | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 sweet | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 sweet | cc |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 voice | nmod:poss |
| 12 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 sweet | nsubj |
| 13 | very | very | ADV | _ | 14 sweet | advmod |
| 14 | sweet | sweet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 pleasant | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 sure | punct |
| 16 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 18 sure | cc |
| 17 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 18 sure | cop |
| 18 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 pleasant | conj |
| 19 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 23 speak | mark |
| 20 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 23 speak | nsubj |
| 21 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 speak | aux |
| 22 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 23 speak | advmod |
| 23 | speak | speak | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 sure | ccomp |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 him | case |
| 25 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 speak | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 speaks | punct |
| 27 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 30 speaks | mark |
| 28 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 speaks | nsubj |
| 29 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 30 speaks | nsubj |
| 30 | speaks | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 speak | advcl |
| 31 | to | to | SCONJ | _ | 34 lost | mark |
| 32 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 lost | nsubj:pass |
| 33 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 34 lost | aux:pass |
| 34 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 30 speaks | advcl |
| 35 | for | for | ADP | _ | 36 ever | case |
| 36 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 34 lost | obl |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 pleasant | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | this Oberon | pleasant property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | look | to-infinitive | this Oberon not said here | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | be | road's voice | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | is | infinitive | this Oberon not said here | sure property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | not speak speech: other | present · do-support | you | road | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to he=Co-Agent | ||||
| 6 | speak speech: other | present | road | that nsubj | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 7 | lose | present · passive | road | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality |
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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