Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 10, sentence 56
And as I was thus fearful the step brake beneath me, and I fell downwards."
Who acts: I · What happens: be, fall
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 (I), 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 | _ | 6 fearful | cc |
| 2 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 6 fearful | mark |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 fearful | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 fearful | cop |
| 5 | thus | thus | ADV | _ | 6 fearful | advmod |
| 6 | fearful | fearful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 brake | det |
| 8 | step | step | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 brake | compound |
| 9 | brake | brake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 fearful | obj |
| 10 | beneath | beneath | ADP | _ | 11 me | case |
| 11 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 brake | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 fell | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 fell | cc |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 fell | nsubj |
| 15 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 fearful | advcl |
| 16 | downwards | downwards | ADV | _ | 15 fell | advmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 fearful | punct |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 fearful | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | I | the step brake obj; fearful, thus property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | fall | past | I | downwards property | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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/pg8447/10/56/