Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Huon Met With King Oberon, sentence 46
He had scarcely said these words when there rose up before them a very fair palace, and in the palace there was a hall, and in the hall a table of gold, set with cups and plates and dishes and all manner of meats thereon.
Who acts: Oberon, hall · What happens: say, rise up, be · To what, where: words, hall, fair palace, palace · 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, hall), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 said | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 said | aux |
| 3 | scarcely | scarcely | ADV | _ | 4 said | advmod |
| 4 | said | say | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 6 words | det |
| 6 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 said | obj |
| 7 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 9 rose | advmod |
| 8 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 9 rose | expl |
| 9 | rose | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 said | advcl |
| 10 | up | up | ADP | _ | 9 rose | compound:prt |
| 11 | before | before | ADP | _ | 12 them | case |
| 12 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 rose | obl |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 palace | det |
| 14 | very | very | ADV | _ | 15 fair | advmod |
| 15 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 palace | amod |
| 16 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 rose | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 was | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 was | cc |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 palace | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 palace | det |
| 21 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 was | obl |
| 22 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 23 was | expl |
| 23 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 said | conj |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 hall | det |
| 25 | hall | hall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 was | nsubj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 hall | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 hall | cc |
| 28 | in | in | ADP | _ | 30 hall | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 hall | det |
| 30 | hall | hall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 said | obl |
| 31 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 32 table | det |
| 32 | table | table | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 hall | conj |
| 33 | of | of | ADP | _ | 34 gold | case |
| 34 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 table | nmod |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 set | punct |
| 36 | set | set | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 table | conj |
| 37 | with | with | ADP | _ | 38 cups | case |
| 38 | cups | cup | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 set | nmod |
| 39 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 plates | cc |
| 40 | plates | plate | NOUN | Number=Plur | 38 cups | conj |
| 41 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 42 dishes | cc |
| 42 | dishes | dish | NOUN | Number=Plur | 38 cups | conj |
| 43 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 45 manner | cc |
| 44 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 45 manner | det |
| 45 | manner | manner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 table | conj |
| 46 | of | of | ADP | _ | 47 meats | case |
| 47 | meats | meat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 45 manner | nmod |
| 48 | thereon | thereon | ADV | _ | 30 hall | advmod |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past · perfect | Oberon | this words | the hall and a table of gold and set with cups and plates and dishes and all manner of meats | scarcely property | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: agent=Agent word=Theme in hall=Manner | ||
| 2 | rise up | past | Oberon not said here | a fair palace | there | before slaying | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location palace=Theme | ||
| 3 | be | past | a hall | the palace; there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in palace=Location |
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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