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title: The story of Huon is peculiarly interesting to us because it introdu… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: The story of Huon is peculiarly interesting to us because it introduces the fairy King Oberon, who was to become so important a figure in English literature. Who acts: story, death, fairy King Oberon. A sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Openin
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Opening, sentence 35

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The story of Huon is peculiarly interesting to us because it introduces the fairy King Oberon, who was to become so important a figure in English literature.

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**Who acts:** story, death, fairy King Oberon · **What happens:** be, introduce, become · **To what, where:** us, fairy King Oberon

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This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Opening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (story, death, fairy King Oberon), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg75339:1:35
# text = The story of Huon is peculiarly interesting to us because it introduces the fairy King Oberon, who was to become so important a figure in English literature.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Huon	Huon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
6	peculiarly	peculiarly	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	interesting	interesting	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	7	obl	_	_
10	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
11	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	introduces	introduce	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	advcl	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
14	fairy	fairy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
15	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	Oberon	Oberon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
18	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	21	nsubj	_	_
19	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
20	to	to	PART	TO	_	21	mark	_	_
21	become	become	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	acl:relcl	_	_
22	so	so	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	important	important	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	xcomp	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	figure	figure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
26	in	in	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	English	English	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	literature	literature	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | the story of Huon |  | us |  |  | interesting, peculiarly *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **introduce** | present | death | the fairy King Oberon |  |  |  |  | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent oberon=Patient |
| 3 | **become** | past | the fairy King Oberon | the fairy King Oberon *not said here* |  |  |  | important *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |

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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.

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**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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