Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 3, sentence 51
In him was naught unsightly; he was taller by half a foot than any knight who stood beside him, and as yet was he scarce more than a child!
Who acts: man, knight · What happens: be, stand · To what, where: naught
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 (man, 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 4 naught | case |
| 2 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 naught | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 naught | cop |
| 4 | naught | naught | PRON | PronType=Neg | 9 taller | obl |
| 5 | unsightly | unsightly | ADV | _ | 4 naught | advmod |
| 6 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 4 naught | punct |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 taller | nsubj |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 taller | cop |
| 9 | taller | tall | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| 10 | by | by | ADP | _ | 13 foot | case |
| 11 | half | half | DET | NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind | 13 foot | det:predet |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 foot | det |
| 13 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 taller | obl |
| 14 | than | than | ADP | _ | 16 knight | case |
| 15 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 16 knight | det |
| 16 | knight | knight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 taller | obl |
| 17 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 stood | nsubj |
| 18 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 knight | acl:relcl |
| 19 | beside | beside | ADP | _ | 20 him | case |
| 20 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 stood | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 scarce | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 scarce | cc |
| 23 | as | as | ADP | _ | 24 yet | case |
| 24 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 27 scarce | obl |
| 25 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 scarce | cop |
| 26 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 scarce | nsubj |
| 27 | scarce | scarce | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 taller | conj |
| 28 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 27 scarce | obj |
| 29 | than | than | ADP | _ | 31 child | case |
| 30 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 child | det |
| 31 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 more | obl |
| 32 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 9 taller | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | man | naught | unsightly property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | is | past | man | by half foot; than any knight; tall property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | stand | past | any knight | beside man | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent beside he=Location | ||||
| 4 | is | past | man | scarce property | tree rules |
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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