Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 10, sentence 57
From his great discomfort and his fear of the dragons he awoke, and slept no more.
Who acts: door · What happens: awake, sleep, fear · To what, where: great discomfort, more, dragons
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 (door), 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 | From | from | ADP | _ | 4 discomfort | case |
| 2 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 discomfort | nmod:poss |
| 3 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 discomfort | amod |
| 4 | discomfort | discomfort | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 awoke | obl |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 fear | cc |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 fear | nmod:poss |
| 7 | fear | fear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 discomfort | conj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 dragons | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 dragons | det |
| 10 | dragons | dragon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 fear | nmod |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 awoke | nsubj |
| 12 | awoke | awake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 slept | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 slept | cc |
| 15 | slept | sleep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 awoke | conj |
| 16 | no | no | ADV | _ | 17 more | advmod |
| 17 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 15 slept | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 awoke | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | awake | past | door | door's great discomfort and door's fear of the dragons | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | sleep | past | door not said here | more | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent more=Theme | ||||
| 3 | fear | door | the dragons | nom fear «feeling transitive»: poss=agent of=patient |
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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