Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 3, sentence 46
Such pity had they for him, they waxed pale, and red, and discovered their faces, when they heard his plaint.
Who acts: Such pity, knight · What happens: have, wax, discover, hear · To what, where: knight, faces, plaint
This is a sentence of «Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch» by Jessie L. Weston, Opening, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Such pity, knight), 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 | Such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 pity | amod |
| 2 | pity | pity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 had | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 had | obj |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 him | case |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 had | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 waxed | punct |
| 8 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 waxed | nsubj |
| 9 | waxed | wax | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 had | conj |
| 10 | pale | pale | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 waxed | xcomp |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 red | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 red | cc |
| 13 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 pale | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 discovered | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 discovered | cc |
| 16 | discovered | discover | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 had | parataxis |
| 17 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 faces | nmod:poss |
| 18 | faces | face | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 discovered | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 heard | punct |
| 20 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 22 heard | advmod |
| 21 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 heard | nsubj |
| 22 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 discovered | conj |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 plaint | nmod:poss |
| 24 | plaint | plaint | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 heard | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | Such pity | knight | for Sir | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient | |||
| 2 | wax | past | knight | pale property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | discover | past | knight's faces | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent face=Topic | |||||
| 4 | hear | past | knight | Sir's plaint | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer plaint=Stimulus |
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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