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title: But the opening lines of the present version show clearly that in on… — Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English… · tree and pragmatics
description: But the opening lines of the present version show clearly that in one important point, at least, the story has undergone a radical modification. Who acts: opening lines. A sentence of «Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch» by Jessie L. Weston, Opening, part 
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# Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 1, sentence 45

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But the opening lines of the present version show clearly that in one important point, at least, the story has undergone a radical modification.

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**Who acts:** opening lines · **What happens:** show, undergo · **To what, where:** least story, one important point · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch» by Jessie L. Weston, Opening, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (opening lines), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg8447:1:45
# text = But the opening lines of the present version show clearly that in one important point, at least, the story has undergone a radical modification.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	opening	opening	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	lines	line	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	present	present	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	version	version	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
9	show	show	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	clearly	clearly	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
11	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	15	nummod	_	_
14	important	important	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	point	point	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
17	at	at	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	least	least	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	21	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj:pass	_	_
22	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
23	undergone	undergo	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	ccomp	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	radical	radical	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	modification	modification	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **show** | present | the opening lines of the present version |  |  |  |  | clearly *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **undergo** | present · perfect · passive |  | the least story |  | one important point |  | a radical modification *obj* | tree rules |

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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.

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**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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