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title: And Huon took to himself the Admiral's sceptre, and then Oberon wish… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: And Huon took to himself the Admiral's sceptre, and then Oberon wished again, and straightway he and Huon and all his company and the fair Esclairmonde were on the shore of the sea. Who acts: Huon, Oberon, straightway. A sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred J
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Huon Returned, His Errand Fulfilled, sentence 111

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And Huon took to himself the Admiral's sceptre, and then Oberon wished again, and straightway he and Huon and all his company and the fair Esclairmonde were on the shore of the sea.

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**Who acts:** Huon, Oberon, straightway · **What happens:** take, wish, be · **To what, where:** sceptre, Huon, shore

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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 (Huon, Oberon, straightway), 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:pg75339:42:111
# text = And Huon took to himself the Admiral's sceptre, and then Oberon wished again, and straightway he and Huon and all his company and the fair Esclairmonde were on the shore of the sea.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	Huon	Huon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	3	obl	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	Admiral	Admiral	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	's	's	PART	POS	_	7	case	_	_
9	sceptre	sceptre	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
12	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	14	advmod	_	_
13	Oberon	Oberon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
14	wished	wish	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
15	again	again	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
18	straightway	straightway	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nsubj	_	_
19	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	Huon	Huon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
23	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	25	det:predet	_	_
24	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	company	company	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	fair	fair	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	Esclairmonde	Esclairmonde	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	conj	_	_
30	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	33	cop	_	_
31	on	on	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	shore	shore	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
34	of	of	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | past | Huon | the Admiral's sceptre | Huon |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent sceptre=Theme to himself=Destination |
| 2 | **wish** | past | Oberon |  |  |  | then; again |  | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot |
| 3 | **is** | past | straightway |  |  | the shore |  | of the sea; Oberon *nsubj* | tree rules |

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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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