Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Huon Met With King Oberon, sentence 33
Then Oberon in his anger blew again on his horn, and straightway there arose a great storm, so that they could scarcely win their way against it; after the storm there appeared a great river in their way, very black and deep, and rushing with a terrible noise; also on the other side of the river there appeared a very fair castle, which when they had looked on it awhile vanished out of their sight.
Who acts: Oberon, straightway, Gerames, other side · What happens: blow, arise, win, appear, rush, look · To what, where: horn, great storm, way, great river, fair castle, straightway
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, straightway, Gerames, other side), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 blew | advmod |
| 2 | Oberon | Oberon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 blew | nsubj |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 anger | case |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 anger | nmod:poss |
| 5 | anger | anger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Oberon | nmod |
| 6 | blew | blow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | again | again | ADV | _ | 6 blew | advmod |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 horn | case |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 horn | nmod:poss |
| 10 | horn | horn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 blew | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 arose | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 arose | cc |
| 13 | straightway | straightway | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 arose | nsubj |
| 14 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 15 arose | advmod |
| 15 | arose | arise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 blew | conj |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 storm | det |
| 17 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 storm | amod |
| 18 | storm | storm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 arose | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 win | punct |
| 20 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 25 win | mark |
| 21 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 20 so | fixed |
| 22 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 win | nsubj |
| 23 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 win | aux |
| 24 | scarcely | scarcely | ADV | _ | 25 win | advmod |
| 25 | win | win | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 arose | advcl |
| 26 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 way | nmod:poss |
| 27 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 win | obj |
| 28 | against | against | ADP | _ | 29 it | case |
| 29 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 win | obl |
| 30 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 35 appeared | punct |
| 31 | after | after | ADP | _ | 33 storm | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 storm | det |
| 33 | storm | storm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 appeared | obl |
| 34 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 35 appeared | advmod |
| 35 | appeared | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 blew | conj |
| 36 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 38 river | det |
| 37 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 river | amod |
| 38 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 appeared | obj |
| 39 | in | in | ADP | _ | 41 way | case |
| 40 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 41 way | nmod:poss |
| 41 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 appeared | obl |
| 42 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 black | punct |
| 43 | very | very | ADV | _ | 44 black | advmod |
| 44 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 way | amod |
| 45 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 46 deep | cc |
| 46 | deep | deep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 44 black | conj |
| 47 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 49 rushing | punct |
| 48 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 49 rushing | cc |
| 49 | rushing | rush | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 blew | advcl |
| 50 | with | with | ADP | _ | 53 noise | case |
| 51 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 53 noise | det |
| 52 | terrible | terrible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 53 noise | amod |
| 53 | noise | noise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 49 rushing | obl |
| 54 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 59 side | punct |
| 55 | also | also | ADV | _ | 59 side | advmod |
| 56 | on | on | ADP | _ | 59 side | case |
| 57 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 59 side | det |
| 58 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 59 side | amod |
| 59 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 64 appeared | nsubj |
| 60 | of | of | ADP | _ | 62 river | case |
| 61 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 62 river | det |
| 62 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 59 side | nmod |
| 63 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 62 river | advmod |
| 64 | appeared | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 blew | parataxis |
| 65 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 68 castle | det |
| 66 | very | very | ADV | _ | 67 fair | advmod |
| 67 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 68 castle | amod |
| 68 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 64 appeared | obj |
| 69 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 74 looked | punct |
| 70 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 74 looked | nsubj:pass |
| 71 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 74 looked | advmod |
| 72 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 74 looked | nsubj |
| 73 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 74 looked | aux |
| 74 | looked | look | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 68 castle | acl:relcl |
| 75 | on | on | ADP | _ | 76 it | case |
| 76 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 74 looked | obl |
| 77 | awhile | awhile | ADV | _ | 78 vanished | advmod |
| 78 | vanished | vanish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 74 looked | advcl |
| 79 | out | out | ADP | _ | 82 sight | case |
| 80 | of | of | ADP | _ | 82 sight | case |
| 81 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 82 sight | nmod:poss |
| 82 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 78 vanished | obl |
| 83 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 blew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | blow | past | Oberon in Oberon's anger | Oberon's horn | then; again | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient | |||
| 2 | arise | past | straightway | a great storm | there | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location storm=Theme | |||
| 3 | win | could | Gerames = gerame | Gerames's way | against straightway; scarcely property | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Eventuality | |||
| 4 | appear | past | Oberon in Oberon's anger not said here | a great river | Gerames's way; there | after the storm | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location river=Theme | ||
| 5 | rush | gerund | Oberon in Oberon's anger not said here | with a terrible noise | vn rush-53.2 «NP V PP.eventuality»: agent=Agent with noise=Eventuality | ||||
| 6 | appear | past | the other side of the river | a fair castle | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location castle=Theme | ||||
| 7 | look | past · perfect · passive | a fair castle | straightway | Gerames = gerame nsubj | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Attribute | |||
| 8 | vanish | past | Gerames's sight | awhile property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 9 | anger | Oberon | nom anger «feeling intransitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 10 | sight | Gerames = gerame | nom sight «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |
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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