Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 6, sentence 65
Little thought had he of the treason which in short while befell him.
Who acts: Little thought · What happens: have, befall · To what, where: treason, thought
This is a sentence of «Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch» by Jessie L. Weston, Opening, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Little thought), 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 | Little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 thought | amod |
| 2 | thought | thought | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 had | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 treason | nsubj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 treason | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 treason | det |
| 7 | treason | treason | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 had | obj |
| 8 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 short | nsubj |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 short | case |
| 10 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 treason | acl:relcl |
| 11 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 12 befell | mark |
| 12 | befell | befall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 short | advcl |
| 13 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 befell | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | Little thought | the treason thought | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent treason=Patient | ||||
| 2 | befall | past | Little thought not said here | thought | 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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