Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 9, sentence 101
A lad came to the door and asked them what they desired, and if aught ailed them that they required aid.
Who acts: lad, steeds, aught · What happens: come, ask, desire, ail, require · To what, where: door, steeds, aid · 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 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lad, steeds, aught), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 lad | det |
| 2 | lad | lad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 came | nsubj |
| 3 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 door | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 door | det |
| 6 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 came | obl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 asked | cc |
| 8 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 came | conj |
| 9 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 asked | obj |
| 10 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 12 desired | obj |
| 11 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 desired | nsubj |
| 12 | desired | desire | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 asked | ccomp |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 ailed | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 ailed | cc |
| 15 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 17 ailed | mark |
| 16 | aught | aught | PRON | PronType=Ind | 17 ailed | nsubj |
| 17 | ailed | ail | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 came | conj |
| 18 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 ailed | obj |
| 19 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 21 required | mark |
| 20 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 required | nsubj |
| 21 | required | require | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 ailed | advcl |
| 22 | aid | aid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 required | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | a lad | the door | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to door=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | a lad not said here | steeds = steed | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | desire | past | steeds = steed | what obj | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot what=Theme | ||||
| 4 | ail a condition, not said to happen | past | aught | steeds = steed | vn pain-40.8.1 «NP V NP.experiencer»: agent=Patient they=Experiencer | ||||
| 5 | require | past | steeds = steed | aid | vn require-103-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme aid=Precondition |
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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