Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the End of the False Duke Macaire, sentence 41
Then Huon made the sign of the cross over the cup, and straightway it was full of wine.
Who acts: Huon, straightway · What happens: make, be, sign · To what, where: sign, cross
This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Of the End of the False Duke Macaire. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Huon, 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 made | advmod |
| 2 | Huon | Huon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 made | nsubj |
| 3 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 sign | det |
| 5 | sign | sign | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 made | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 cross | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 cross | det |
| 8 | cross | cross | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sign | nmod |
| 9 | over | over | ADP | _ | 11 cup | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 cup | det |
| 11 | cup | cup | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 cross | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 full | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 full | cc |
| 14 | straightway | straightway | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 full | nsubj |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 full | nsubj |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 full | cop |
| 17 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 made | conj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 wine | case |
| 19 | wine | wine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 full | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past | Huon | the sign of the cross over the cup | then | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sign=Product | |||
| 2 | is | past | straightway | of wine; full property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | sign | the cross over the cup | 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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