Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Huon Met With King Oberon, sentence 48
And Oberon told Huon how he came to be as he was, for he was but as a child to look upon. "
Who acts: Oberon · What happens: tell, come, be, look · To what, where: Huon · 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), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 told | cc |
| 2 | Oberon | Oberon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 told | nsubj |
| 3 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | Huon | Huon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 told | iobj |
| 5 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 7 came | advmod |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 came | nsubj |
| 7 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 told | advcl |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 child | mark |
| 9 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 20 child | cop |
| 10 | as | as | ADP | _ | 20 child | case |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 child | nsubj |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 child | cop |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 child | punct |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 20 child | case |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 child | nsubj |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 child | cop |
| 17 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 20 child | cc |
| 18 | as | as | ADP | _ | 20 child | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 child | det |
| 20 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 came | advcl |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 look | mark |
| 22 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 came | advcl |
| 23 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 22 look | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 told | punct |
| 25 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 told | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | past | Oberon | Huon | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent huon=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | come | past | Oberon | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | is | to-infinitive | Oberon | as a child | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | look | to-infinitive | Oberon not said here | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
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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