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title: This Oberon took in his hands, and made over it the sign of the cros… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: This Oberon took in his hands, and made over it the sign of the cross, and straightway the cup was filled to the brim with wine. " Who acts: Oberon. A sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How Huon Met With King Oberon, with its dependency tree an
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Huon Met With King Oberon, sentence 56

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This Oberon took in his hands, and made over it the sign of the cross, and straightway the cup was filled to the brim with wine. "

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**Who acts:** Oberon · **What happens:** take, make, fill, sign · **To what, where:** hands, sign, hand, straightway, cross

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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), 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:pg75339:39:56
# text = This Oberon took in his hands, and made over it the sign of the cross, and straightway the cup was filled to the brim with wine. "
1	This	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	det	_	_
2	Oberon	Oberon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	parataxis	_	_
10	over	over	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obl	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	sign	sign	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	cross	cross	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
19	straightway	straightway	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj:pass	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	cup	cup	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj:pass	_	_
22	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux:pass	_	_
23	filled	fill	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
24	to	to	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	brim	brim	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
27	with	with	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	wine	wine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
30	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | past | this Oberon |  |  | Oberon's hands |  |  | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in hand=Location |
| 2 | **make** | participle |  | the sign of the cross |  | hand |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset sign=Product |
| 3 | **fill** | past · passive |  | straightway |  |  |  | to the brim with wine; the cup *nsubj:pass* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient |
| 4 | **sign** |  |  | the cross |  |  |  |  | nom sign «communication transitive»: of=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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