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title: The Hermit made ready food for his guests, and prepared a couch for… — Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English… · tree and pragmatics
description: The Hermit made ready food for his guests, and prepared a couch for Sir Lancelot as best he might. Who acts: Hermit. A sentence of «Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch» by Jessie L. Weston, Opening, part 11, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ev
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# Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 11, sentence 27

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The Hermit made ready food for his guests, and prepared a couch for Sir Lancelot as best he might.

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**Who acts:** Hermit · **What happens:** make, prepare · **To what, where:** ready food, couch

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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 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Hermit), 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:pg8447:11:27
# text = The Hermit made ready food for his guests, and prepared a couch for Sir Lancelot as best he might.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Hermit	Hermit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	ready	ready	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	for	for	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	guests	guest	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	prepared	prepare	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	couch	couch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	for	for	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	Sir	Sir	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nmod:desc	_	_
16	Lancelot	Lancelot	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
17	as	as	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	best	good	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	11	obj	_	_
19	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | past | the Hermit | ready food |  |  |  | for hermit's guests | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent food=Material for guest=Beneficiary |
| 2 | **prepare** | past |  | a couch |  |  |  | for Lancelot  Sir | 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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