---
title: And Lancelot smote at the monster so that his spear brake in twain,… — Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English… · tree and pragmatics
description: And Lancelot smote at the monster so that his spear brake in twain, yet had he not bruised it a whit, or pierced its hide; then he drew forth his sword and smote with great force, but he harmed it not, and it seized Lancelot by the throat and scored him in such wise that the knight was wroth thereof
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8447/11/5/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered in…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8447/) / [Opening, part 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8447/11/) / 5

# Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 11, sentence 5

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
And Lancelot smote at the monster so that his spear brake in twain, yet had he not bruised it a whit, or pierced its hide; then he drew forth his sword and smote with great force, but he harmed it not, and it seized Lancelot by the throat and scored him in such wise that the knight was wroth thereof, for it tare a great rent through the hauberk even to the flesh, and wounded him sore.

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** Lancelot, beast, knight · **What happens:** smite, have, not bruise, pierce, draw, smote · **To what, where:** beast, hide, sword, Lancelot, such wise, great rent

<!-- .vabout -->
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, knight), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

<!-- .note-en -->
**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg8447:11:5
# text = And Lancelot smote at the monster so that his spear brake in twain, yet had he not bruised it a whit, or pierced its hide; then he drew forth his sword and smote with great force, but he harmed it not, and it seized Lancelot by the throat and scored him in such wise that the knight was wroth thereof, for it tare a great rent through the hauberk even to the flesh, and wounded him sore.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	Lancelot	Lancelot	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	smote	smite	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	at	at	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	monster	monster	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	so	so	SCONJ	IN	_	11	case	_	_
8	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	7	fixed	_	_
9	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
10	spear	spear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	brake	brake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	twain	twain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	yet	yet	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
17	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
18	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	19	advmod	_	_
19	bruised	bruise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	ccomp	_	_
20	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	obj	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	whit	whit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	pierced	pierce	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	conj	_	_
26	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	hide	hide	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	31	punct	_	_
29	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	31	advmod	_	_
30	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
31	drew	draw	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
32	forth	forth	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
33	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	34	nmod:poss	_	_
34	sword	sword	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obj	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
36	smote	smote	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	31	conj	_	_
37	with	with	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	amod	_	_
39	force	force	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
41	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	43	cc	_	_
42	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	43	nsubj	_	_
43	harmed	harm	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	conj	_	_
44	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	43	obj	_	_
45	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	43	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	49	punct	_	_
47	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	49	cc	_	_
48	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	49	nsubj	_	_
49	seized	seize	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	conj	_	_
50	Lancelot	Lancelot	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	49	obj	_	_
51	by	by	ADP	IN	_	53	case	_	_
52	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	53	det	_	_
53	throat	throat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	obl	_	_
54	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	55	cc	_	_
55	scored	score	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	49	conj	_	_
56	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	55	obj	_	_
57	in	in	ADP	IN	_	59	case	_	_
58	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	59	amod	_	_
59	wise	wise	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	55	obl	_	_
60	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	64	mark	_	_
61	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	62	det	_	_
62	knight	knight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	64	nsubj	_	_
63	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	64	cop	_	_
64	wroth	wroth	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	55	advcl	_	_
65	thereof	thereof	ADV	RB	_	64	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
66	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	69	punct	_	_
67	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	69	mark	_	_
68	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	69	nsubj	_	_
69	tare	tare	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	64	conj	_	_
70	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	72	det	_	_
71	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	72	amod	_	_
72	rent	rent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	69	obj	_	_
73	through	through	ADP	IN	_	75	case	_	_
74	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	75	det	_	_
75	hauberk	hauberk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	69	obl	_	_
76	even	even	ADV	RB	_	79	advmod	_	_
77	to	to	ADP	IN	_	79	case	_	_
78	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	79	det	_	_
79	flesh	flesh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	69	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
80	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	82	punct	_	_
81	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	82	cc	_	_
82	wounded	wound	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	conj	_	_
83	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	82	obj	_	_
84	sore	sore	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	82	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
85	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **smite** | past | Lancelot |  |  |  |  | at the monster; so Lancelot's spear brake in twain | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **have** | past | Lancelot *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **not** **bruise** | past | Lancelot | beast |  |  |  | a whit *obj* | tree rules |
| 4 | **pierce** | participle | Lancelot *not said here* | beast's hide |  |  |  |  | vn poke-19-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hide=Patient |
| 5 | **draw** | past | Lancelot | Lancelot's sword |  |  | then | forth *property* | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sword=Theme |
| 6 | **smote** | infinitive | Lancelot *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with great force | tree rules |
| 7 | **not** **harm** | past | Lancelot | beast |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus it=Experiencer |
| 8 | **seize** | past | beast | Lancelot |  |  |  | by the throat | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lancelot=Theme |
| 9 | **score** | past | beast *not said here* | Lancelot |  | such wise |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
| 10 | **is** | past | the knight |  |  |  |  | thereof, wroth *property* | tree rules |
| 11 | **tare** | infinitive | beast | a great rent |  | the hauberk |  | to the flesh | tree rules |
| 12 | **wound** | past | Lancelot *not said here* | Lancelot |  |  |  | sore *property* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus he=Experiencer |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [sentence 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8447/11/4/)
- next →: [sentence 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8447/11/6/)
- ↑ back to [Opening, part 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8447/11/)