Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Huon Met With King Oberon, sentence 61
Then he took the cup in his hands, and straightway it was full of wine.
Who acts: man, straightway · What happens: take, be · To what, where: cup, hands
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 (man, straightway), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 took | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 took | nsubj |
| 3 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 cup | det |
| 5 | cup | cup | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 took | obj |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 hands | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 hands | nmod:poss |
| 8 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 took | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 full | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 full | cc |
| 11 | straightway | straightway | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 full | nsubj |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 full | nsubj |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 full | cop |
| 14 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 took | conj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 wine | case |
| 16 | wine | wine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 full | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | man | the cup | man's hands | then | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent cup=Value in hand=Location | ||
| 2 | is | past | straightway | of wine; full property | tree rules |
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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