Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Huon Returned, His Errand Fulfilled, sentence 106
And Oberon heard it where he sat in his palace, and said, "Hark! there is the horn once more, and methinks it sounds true."
Who acts: Oberon, horn, city · What happens: hear, sit, say, be, methink, sound · To what, where: city, palace · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How Huon Returned, His Errand Fulfilled. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Oberon, horn, city), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 heard | cc |
| 2 | Oberon | Oberon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 heard | nsubj |
| 3 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 heard | obj |
| 5 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 7 sat | advmod |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 sat | nsubj |
| 7 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 heard | advcl |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 palace | case |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 palace | nmod:poss |
| 10 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 sat | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 said | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 said | cc |
| 13 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 heard | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 Hark | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 Hark | punct |
| 16 | Hark | Hark | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 is | dep |
| 17 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 16 Hark | punct |
| 18 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 19 is | expl |
| 19 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 said | ccomp |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 horn | det |
| 21 | horn | horn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 is | nsubj |
| 22 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 23 more | advmod |
| 23 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 19 is | advmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 methinks | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 methinks | cc |
| 26 | methinks | methink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 heard | conj |
| 27 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 sounds | nsubj |
| 28 | sounds | sound | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 methinks | ccomp |
| 29 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 sounds | xcomp |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 26 methinks | punct |
| 31 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 26 methinks | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past | Oberon | city | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | sit | past | Oberon | Oberon's palace | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in palace=Location | ||||
| 3 | say speech: express | past | Oberon not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | be in a quote | present | the horn | there | Hark dep | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 5 | methink in a quote | present | Oberon not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | sound in a quote | present | city | true property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
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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