Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Huon Met With King Oberon, sentence 50
But one fairy was not called, and she, being, greatly angered, said, 'This child shall not grow one whit after his third year.'
Who acts: hall, child · What happens: not call, be, say, not grow · To what, where: one fairy, one whit · 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 (hall, child), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 6 called | cc |
| 2 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 fairy | nummod |
| 3 | fairy | fairy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 called | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 called | aux:pass |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 called | advmod |
| 6 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 angered | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 angered | cc |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 angered | nsubj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 angered | punct |
| 11 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 angered | cop |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 angered | punct |
| 13 | greatly | greatly | ADV | _ | 14 angered | advmod |
| 14 | angered | anger | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 called | parataxis |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 said | punct |
| 16 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 angered | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 grow | punct |
| 18 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 23 grow | punct |
| 19 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 20 child | det |
| 20 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 grow | nsubj |
| 21 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 grow | aux |
| 22 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 23 grow | advmod |
| 23 | grow | grow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 said | ccomp |
| 24 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 25 whit | nummod |
| 25 | whit | whit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 grow | obj |
| 26 | after | after | ADP | _ | 29 year | case |
| 27 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 year | nmod:poss |
| 28 | third | third | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 29 year | amod |
| 29 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 grow | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 called | punct |
| 31 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 called | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not call speech: assert | past · passive | one fairy | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | |||||
| 2 | is | gerund | hall | anger, greatly property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | hall not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | not grow | shall | this child | one whit | year | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location whit=Theme |
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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