Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 11, sentence 3
So soon as Lancelot might know where the beast was wont to lie, he made haste thitherward, and so soon as it was ware of his coming it came flying in such guise as it had been the Devil, and set upon Sir Lancelot straightway.
Who acts: Lancelot, beast · What happens: know, be, lie, haste, come, fly · To what, where: ware, such guise, Sir straightway · 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 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Lancelot, beast), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 2 soon | advmod |
| 2 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 17 haste | advmod |
| 3 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 6 know | mark |
| 4 | Lancelot | Lancelot | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 know | nsubj |
| 5 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 know | aux |
| 6 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 haste | advcl |
| 7 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 11 wont | advmod |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 beast | det |
| 9 | beast | beast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 wont | nsubj |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 wont | cop |
| 11 | wont | wont | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 know | ccomp |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 lie | mark |
| 13 | lie | lie | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 wont | xcomp |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 know | punct |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 haste | nsubj |
| 16 | made | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 haste | aux |
| 17 | haste | haste | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 18 | thitherward | thitherward | ADV | _ | 17 haste | advmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 ware | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 ware | cc |
| 21 | so | so | ADV | _ | 22 soon | advmod |
| 22 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 26 ware | advmod |
| 23 | as | as | ADP | _ | 26 ware | case |
| 24 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 ware | nsubj |
| 25 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 ware | cop |
| 26 | ware | ware | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 haste | obl |
| 27 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 29 coming | mark |
| 28 | his | his | PRON | Gender=Masc Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 coming | nsubj |
| 29 | coming | come | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 26 ware | acl |
| 30 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 came | nsubj |
| 31 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 coming | ccomp |
| 32 | flying | fly | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 31 came | xcomp |
| 33 | in | in | ADP | _ | 35 guise | case |
| 34 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 guise | amod |
| 35 | guise | guise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 flying | obl |
| 36 | as | as | ADP | _ | 41 Devil | case |
| 37 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 41 Devil | nsubj |
| 38 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 41 Devil | aux |
| 39 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 41 Devil | cop |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 Devil | det |
| 41 | Devil | Devil | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 flying | obl |
| 42 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 set | punct |
| 43 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 44 set | cc |
| 44 | set | set | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 haste | conj |
| 45 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 48 straightway | case |
| 46 | Sir | Sir | PROPN | Number=Sing | 48 straightway | compound |
| 47 | Lancelot | Lancelot | PROPN | Number=Sing | 46 Sir | flat |
| 48 | straightway | straightway | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 set | obl |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 haste | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | might | Lancelot | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | is | past | the beast | wont property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | lie | to-infinitive | the beast not said here | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | haste | may | Lancelot | soon, thitherward property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | is | past | beast | as ware; soon property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | come | gerund | Lancelot | ware not said here | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | come | past | beast | tree rules | |||||
| 8 | fly | gerund | beast not said here | such guise | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in guise=Location | ||||
| 9 | is | past · perfect | beast | as the Devil | tree rules | ||||
| 10 | set | infinitive | Lancelot not said here | Sir straightway | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent upon straightway=Destination |
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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