Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 8, sentence 23
That night had they all the comfort that the hermit might prepare till that they saw the fair day dawn and the sun begin to rise.
Who acts: night, twas, hermit, fair day dawn · What happens: have, comfort, prepare, see, begin, rise · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch» by Jessie L. Weston, Opening, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (night, twas, hermit, fair day dawn), 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 | That | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 night | det |
| 2 | night | night | 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 | 7 comfort | nsubj |
| 5 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 comfort | det:predet |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 comfort | det |
| 7 | comfort | comfort | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 had | obj |
| 8 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 12 prepare | mark |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 hermit | det |
| 10 | hermit | hermit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 prepare | nsubj |
| 11 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 prepare | aux |
| 12 | prepare | prepare | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 comfort | advcl |
| 13 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 16 saw | mark |
| 14 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 16 saw | mark |
| 15 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 saw | nsubj |
| 16 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 prepare | ccomp |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 dawn | det |
| 18 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 dawn | amod |
| 19 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 dawn | compound |
| 20 | dawn | dawn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 begin | nsubj |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 sun | cc |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 sun | det |
| 23 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 dawn | conj |
| 24 | begin | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 saw | ccomp |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 rise | mark |
| 26 | rise | rise | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 begin | xcomp |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | that night | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | comfort | twas = twa | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | prepare | might | the hermit | vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Agent clause=Attribute | |||||
| 4 | see | past | twas = twa | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 5 | begin | present | the fair day dawn and the sun | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 6 | rise | to-infinitive | the fair day dawn and the sun not said here | vn assuming_position-50 «NP 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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