Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 10, sentence 46
Within this he beheld a stairway, that wound upward to a doorway at the end.
Who acts: doorway, stairway · What happens: behold, wound · To what, where: stairway
This is a sentence of «Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch» by Jessie L. Weston, Opening, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (doorway, stairway), 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 | Within | within | ADP | _ | 2 this | case |
| 2 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 beheld | obl |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 beheld | nsubj |
| 4 | beheld | behold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 stairway | det |
| 6 | stairway | stairway | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 beheld | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 wound | punct |
| 8 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 wound | nsubj |
| 9 | wound | wound | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 stairway | acl:relcl |
| 10 | upward | upward | ADV | _ | 9 wound | advmod |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 doorway | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 doorway | det |
| 13 | doorway | doorway | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 wound | obl |
| 14 | at | at | ADP | _ | 16 end | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 end | det |
| 16 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 doorway | nmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 beheld | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | behold | past | doorway | a stairway | within this | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer stairway=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | wound | present | a stairway | to a doorway at the end; upward property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8447/10/46/