Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 1, sentence 45
But the opening lines of the present version show clearly that in one important point, at least, the story has undergone a radical modification.
Who acts: opening lines · What happens: show, undergo · To what, where: least story, one important point · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch» by Jessie L. Weston, Opening, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (opening lines), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 9 show | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 lines | det |
| 3 | opening | opening | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 lines | amod |
| 4 | lines | line | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 show | nsubj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 version | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 version | det |
| 7 | present | present | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 version | compound |
| 8 | version | version | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 lines | nmod |
| 9 | show | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | clearly | clearly | ADV | _ | 9 show | advmod |
| 11 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 23 undergone | mark |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 point | case |
| 13 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 point | nummod |
| 14 | important | important | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 point | amod |
| 15 | point | point | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 undergone | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 point | punct |
| 17 | at | at | ADP | _ | 18 least | case |
| 18 | least | least | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 21 story | amod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 least | punct |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 story | det |
| 21 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 undergone | nsubj:pass |
| 22 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 undergone | aux |
| 23 | undergone | undergo | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 show | ccomp |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 modification | det |
| 25 | radical | radical | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 modification | amod |
| 26 | modification | modification | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 undergone | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 show | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | show | present | the opening lines of the present version | clearly property | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | undergo | present · perfect · passive | the least story | one important point | a radical modification obj | tree rules |
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.
Text: «Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch» by Jessie L. Weston, Project Gutenberg book 8447 (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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