Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Huon Met With King Oberon, sentence 49
When I was christened," said he, "my father gave a royal feast to all the people, and called the fairies also.
Who acts: Oberon, father, fairies · What happens: christen, say, give, call · To what, where: I, royal feast, people · 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, father, fairies), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 christened | advmod |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 christened | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 christened | aux:pass |
| 4 | christened | christen | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 said | ccomp |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 christened | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 christened | punct |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 said | nsubj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 gave | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 gave | punct |
| 11 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 father | nmod:poss |
| 12 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 gave | nsubj |
| 13 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 said | conj |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 feast | det |
| 15 | royal | royal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 feast | amod |
| 16 | feast | feast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 gave | obj |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 people | case |
| 18 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 20 people | det:predet |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 people | det |
| 20 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 gave | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 called | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 called | cc |
| 23 | called | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 said | conj |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 fairies | det |
| 25 | fairies | fairy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 called | obj |
| 26 | also | also | ADV | _ | 23 called | advmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | christen | past · passive | I | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Result | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | Oberon | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | give | past | my father | a royal feast | all people | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent feast=Theme to people=Recipient | |||
| 4 | call speech: assert | past | the fairies | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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