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description: So soon as Lancelot might know where the beast was wont to lie, he made haste thitherward, and so soon as it was ware of his coming it came flying in such guise as it had been the Devil, and set upon Sir Lancelot straightway. Who acts: Lancelot, beast. A sentence of «Morien: A Metrical Romance Rende
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# Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 11, sentence 3

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So soon as Lancelot might know where the beast was wont to lie, he made haste thitherward, and so soon as it was ware of his coming it came flying in such guise as it had been the Devil, and set upon Sir Lancelot straightway.

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**Who acts:** Lancelot, beast · **What happens:** know, be, lie, haste, come, fly · **To what, where:** ware, such guise, Sir straightway · **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 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Lancelot, beast), 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:pg8447:11:3
# text = So soon as Lancelot might know where the beast was wont to lie, he made haste thitherward, and so soon as it was ware of his coming it came flying in such guise as it had been the Devil, and set upon Sir Lancelot straightway.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	17	advmod	_	_
3	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
4	Lancelot	Lancelot	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
5	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	know	know	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	advcl	_	_
7	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	11	advmod	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	beast	beast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
10	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
11	wont	wont	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	ccomp	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	lie	lie	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
15	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
16	made	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	haste	haste	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
18	thitherward	thitherward	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
21	so	so	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	26	advmod	_	_
23	as	as	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
25	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	cop	_	_
26	ware	ware	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
27	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
28	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Gender=Masc|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
29	coming	come	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	26	acl	_	_
30	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
31	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	ccomp	_	_
32	flying	fly	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	31	xcomp	_	_
33	in	in	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	guise	guise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	_
36	as	as	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
37	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	41	nsubj	_	_
38	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	41	aux	_	_
39	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	41	cop	_	_
40	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
41	Devil	Devil	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	_
43	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	44	cc	_	_
44	set	set	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	conj	_	_
45	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
46	Sir	Sir	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	48	compound	_	_
47	Lancelot	Lancelot	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	46	flat	_	_
48	straightway	straightway	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **know** | might | Lancelot |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **is** | past | the beast |  |  |  |  | wont *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **lie** | to-infinitive | the beast *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **haste** | may | Lancelot |  |  |  |  | soon, thitherward *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **is** | past | beast |  |  |  |  | as ware; soon *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **come** | gerund | Lancelot | ware *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **come** | past | beast |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 8 | **fly** | gerund | beast *not said here* |  |  | such guise |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in guise=Location |
| 9 | **is** | past · perfect | beast |  |  |  |  | as the Devil | tree rules |
| 10 | **set** | infinitive | Lancelot *not said here* |  |  | Sir straightway |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent upon straightway=Destination |

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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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