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description: He had scarcely said these words when there rose up before them a very fair palace, and in the palace there was a hall, and in the hall a table of gold, set with cups and plates and dishes and all manner of meats thereon. Who acts: Oberon, hall. A sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve P
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Huon Met With King Oberon, sentence 46

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He had scarcely said these words when there rose up before them a very fair palace, and in the palace there was a hall, and in the hall a table of gold, set with cups and plates and dishes and all manner of meats thereon.

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**Who acts:** Oberon, hall · **What happens:** say, rise up, be · **To what, where:** words, hall, fair palace, palace · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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, hall), 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:pg75339:39:46
# text = He had scarcely said these words when there rose up before them a very fair palace, and in the palace there was a hall, and in the hall a table of gold, set with cups and plates and dishes and all manner of meats thereon.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	scarcely	scarcely	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	said	say	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	6	det	_	_
6	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
7	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	9	advmod	_	_
8	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	9	expl	_	_
9	rose	rise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	_
10	up	up	ADP	RP	_	9	compound:prt	_	_
11	before	before	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obl	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
14	very	very	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	fair	fair	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
22	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	23	expl	_	_
23	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	hall	hall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
28	in	in	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	hall	hall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
31	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	table	table	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	conj	_	_
33	of	of	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
36	set	set	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	conj	_	_
37	with	with	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
38	cups	cup	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	36	nmod	_	_
39	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	40	cc	_	_
40	plates	plate	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	38	conj	_	_
41	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	42	cc	_	_
42	dishes	dish	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	38	conj	_	_
43	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	45	cc	_	_
44	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	45	det	_	_
45	manner	manner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	conj	_	_
46	of	of	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
47	meats	meat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	45	nmod	_	_
48	thereon	thereon	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past · perfect | Oberon | this words |  | the hall and a table of gold and set with cups and plates and dishes and all manner of meats |  | scarcely *property* | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: agent=Agent word=Theme in hall=Manner |
| 2 | **rise up** | past | Oberon *not said here* | a fair palace |  | there | before slaying |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location palace=Theme |
| 3 | **be** | past | a hall |  |  | the palace; there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in palace=Location |

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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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