Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 2, sentence 67

All they of the court were sad and sorry at their departing; that eve they ate but little, for thinking of the knights who should ride forth with the morning.

Who acts: All, eve, knights · What happens: be, eat, think, ride · To what, where: departing

This is a sentence of «Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch» by Jessie L. Weston, Opening, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (All, eve, knights), 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	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 sad	nsubj
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 sad	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 court	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 court	det
5	court	court	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 they	nmod
6	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 sad	cop
7	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 sorry	cc
9	sorry	sorry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 sad	conj
10	at	at	ADP	_	12 departing	case
11	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 departing	nmod:poss
12	departing	departing	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 sorry	obl
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 ate	punct
14	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	15 eve	det
15	eve	eve	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 ate	nsubj
16	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 ate	nsubj
17	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 sad	parataxis
18	but	but	CCONJ	_	19 little	cc
19	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 ate	conj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 thinking	punct
21	for	for	SCONJ	_	22 thinking	mark
22	thinking	think	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	17 ate	conj
23	of	of	ADP	_	25 knights	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 knights	det
25	knights	knight	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 thinking	obl
26	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	28 ride	nsubj
27	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 ride	aux
28	ride	ride	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 knights	acl:relcl
29	forth	forth	ADV	_	28 ride	advmod
30	with	with	ADP	_	32 morning	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 morning	det
32	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 ride	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 sad	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	All			hands = hand nsubj; sad property	tree rules
2	be		All not said here	hands's departing			tree rules
3	eat	past	that eve			hands = hand nsubj	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	think speech: other	gerund	that eve not said here			of the knights	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	ride	should	the knights		morning	forth property	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent

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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🌲 Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 2, sentence 67

The tree

Pragmatics

Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 2, sentence 67