Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 7, sentence 75

Then did they abide no longer, but betook them to the hermit who had been sore afeard for all that he heard and saw through the window of his cell.

Who acts: teeth, hermit, Sir · What happens: do, abide, betake, be, hear, see · To what, where: teeth, window

This is a sentence of «Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch» by Jessie L. Weston, Opening, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (teeth, hermit, Sir), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 did	advmod
2	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 abide	nsubj
4	abide	abide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 did	ccomp
5	no	no	ADV	_	6 longer	advmod
6	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	4 abide	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 betook	punct
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	9 betook	cc
9	betook	betake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 did	conj
10	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 betook	obj
11	to	to	ADP	_	13 hermit	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 hermit	det
13	hermit	hermit	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 betook	obl
14	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 afeard	nsubj
15	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 afeard	aux
16	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	18 afeard	cop
17	sore	sore	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 afeard	amod
18	afeard	afeard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 hermit	acl:relcl
19	for	for	ADP	_	23 heard	case
20	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	23 heard	det:predet
21	that	that	SCONJ	_	23 heard	mark
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 heard	nsubj
23	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 afeard	parataxis
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 saw	cc
25	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 heard	conj
26	through	through	ADP	_	28 window	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 window	det
28	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 saw	obl
29	of	of	ADP	_	31 cell	case
30	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 cell	nmod:poss
31	cell	cell	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 window	nmod
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 did	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past				then		tree rules
2	abide	present	teeth = tooth				long property	tree rules
3	betake	past		teeth = tooth			to the hermit	tree rules
4	is	past · perfect	the hermit				afeard property	tree rules
5	hear	past	Sir					vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer
6	see	past	Sir not said here		the window of Sir's cell			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

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 7, sentence 75

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Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 7, sentence 75