Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Huon Met With King Oberon, sentence 56
This Oberon took in his hands, and made over it the sign of the cross, and straightway the cup was filled to the brim with wine. "
Who acts: Oberon · What happens: take, make, fill, sign · To what, where: hands, sign, hand, straightway, cross
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 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 Oberon | det |
| 2 | Oberon | Oberon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 took | nsubj |
| 3 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 hands | case |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 hands | nmod:poss |
| 6 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 took | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 made | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 made | cc |
| 9 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 took | parataxis |
| 10 | over | over | ADP | _ | 11 it | case |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 made | obl |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 sign | det |
| 13 | sign | sign | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 made | obj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 cross | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 cross | det |
| 16 | cross | cross | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 sign | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 filled | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 filled | cc |
| 19 | straightway | straightway | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 filled | nsubj:pass |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 cup | det |
| 21 | cup | cup | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 filled | nsubj:pass |
| 22 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 filled | aux:pass |
| 23 | filled | fill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 took | conj |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 brim | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 brim | det |
| 26 | brim | brim | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 filled | obl |
| 27 | with | with | ADP | _ | 28 wine | case |
| 28 | wine | wine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 brim | nmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 took | punct |
| 30 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | this Oberon | Oberon's hands | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in hand=Location | ||||
| 2 | make | participle | the sign of the cross | hand | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset sign=Product | ||||
| 3 | fill | past · passive | straightway | to the brim with wine; the cup nsubj:pass | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 4 | sign | the cross | nom sign «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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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