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title: At dinner Huon took the cup that Oberon had given him, and showed it… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: At dinner Huon took the cup that Oberon had given him, and showed it to the Admiral saying, "See now what happens when I make this sign." Who acts: Huon. A sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How Huon Returned, His Errand Fulfilled, with its dep
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Huon Returned, His Errand Fulfilled, sentence 92

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At dinner Huon took the cup that Oberon had given him, and showed it to the Admiral saying, "See now what happens when I make this sign."

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**Who acts:** Huon · **What happens:** take, give, show, say, see, happen · **To what, where:** cup, dinner, Oberon, Huon, Admiral, sign · **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 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), 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:pg75339:42:92
# text = At dinner Huon took the cup that Oberon had given him, and showed it to the Admiral saying, "See now what happens when I make this sign."
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	dinner	dinner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
3	Huon	Huon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	cup	cup	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
8	Oberon	Oberon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj:pass	_	_
9	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	given	give	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	_
11	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	iobj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	showed	show	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
15	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obj	_	_
16	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	Admiral	admiral	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
19	saying	say	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	See	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	ccomp	_	_
23	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	22	advmod	_	_
24	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	25	nsubj	_	_
25	happens	happen	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	ccomp	_	_
26	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	28	advmod	_	_
27	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
28	make	make	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	advcl	_	_
29	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	30	det	_	_
30	sign	sign	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	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 cup |  | dinner |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent cup=Theme at dinner=Asset |
| 2 | **give** | past · perfect · passive |  | Oberon | Huon |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient he=Theme |
| 3 | **show** | past | Huon *not said here* | cup | the Admiral |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Topic to admiral=Recipient |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | Huon *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 5 | **see** *in a quote* | infinitive |  |  |  |  | now |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 6 | **happen** *in a quote* | present |  |  |  |  |  | what *nsubj* | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **make** *in a quote* | present | Huon | this sign |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sign=Product |

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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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