Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 10, sentence 52
And it seemed to him that the door was distant from the step as high as one might shoot with a bow.
Who acts: it, door, one · What happens: seem, be, shoot · 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 (it, door, one), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 seemed | cc |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 seemed | nsubj |
| 3 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 him | case |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 seemed | obl |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 distant | mark |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 door | det |
| 8 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 distant | nsubj |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 distant | cop |
| 10 | distant | distant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 seemed | advcl |
| 11 | from | from | ADP | _ | 13 step | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 step | det |
| 13 | step | step | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 distant | obl |
| 14 | as | as | ADV | _ | 15 high | advmod |
| 15 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 step | amod |
| 16 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 19 shoot | mark |
| 17 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 19 shoot | nsubj |
| 18 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 shoot | aux |
| 19 | shoot | shoot | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 high | advcl |
| 20 | with | with | ADP | _ | 22 bow | case |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 bow | det |
| 22 | bow | bow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 shoot | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 seemed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seem | past | it | stairway | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is | past | the door | from the step; distant property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | shoot | might | one | with a bow | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with bow=Instrument |
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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