--- title: The hero, thrown into a love-trance by the sight of blood-drops on t… — Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English… · tree and pragmatics description: The hero, thrown into a love-trance by the sight of blood-drops on the snow, gives no answer to the challenge addressed to him successively by Segramore and Kay, and being rudely attacked by these knights overthrows them both. Who acts: hero, answer. A sentence of «Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendere --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8447/13/20/) [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/) / [Amen. Notes](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8447/13/) / 20 # Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Amen. Notes, sentence 20 The hero, thrown into a love-trance by the sight of blood-drops on the snow, gives no answer to the challenge addressed to him successively by Segramore and Kay, and being rudely attacked by these knights overthrows them both. **Who acts:** hero, answer · **What happens:** throw, give, address, attack, overthrow, sight · **To what, where:** hero, love trance, knights, blood drops This is a sentence of «Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch» by Jessie L. Weston, Amen. Notes. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hero, answer), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg8447:13:20 # text = The hero, thrown into a love-trance by the sight of blood-drops on the snow, gives no answer to the challenge addressed to him successively by Segramore and Kay, and being rudely attacked by these knights overthrows them both. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 hero hero NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 4 thrown throw VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 2 acl _ _ 5 into into ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 7 love love NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 8 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 7 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 9 trance trance NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 10 by by ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 sight sight NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 13 of of ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 14 blood blood NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 15 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 14 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 16 drops drop NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 nmod _ _ 17 on on ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 snow snow NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 21 gives give VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 22 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 23 det _ _ 23 answer answer NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nsubj _ _ 24 to to ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 challenge challenge NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nmod _ _ 27 addressed address VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 21 ccomp _ _ 28 to to ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 29 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 obl _ _ 30 successively successively ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ _ 31 by by ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 32 Segramore Segramore PROPN NNP Number=Sing 27 obl _ _ 33 and and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 34 Kay Kay PROPN NNP Number=Sing 32 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 35 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 36 and and CCONJ CC _ 39 cc _ _ 37 being be AUX VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 39 aux:pass _ _ 38 rudely rudely ADV RB _ 39 advmod _ _ 39 attacked attack VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 21 conj _ _ 40 by by ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 41 these this DET DT Number=Plur|PronType=Dem 42 det _ _ 42 knights knight NOUN NNS Number=Plur 43 obl _ _ 43 overthrows overthrow VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 39 parataxis _ _ 44 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 43 obj _ _ 45 both both DET DT PronType=Tot 44 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 46 . . PUNCT . _ 21 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **throw** | participle | | the hero *not said here* | | | | into a love trance *result*; by the sight of blood drops on the snow | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Causer into trance=Result | | 2 | **give** | present | the hero | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **address** | past | no answer to the challenge | | hero | | | by Segramore and Kay; successively *property* | vn illustrate-25.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **attack** | gerund · passive | the hero *not said here* | | | | | rudely *property* | vn attack-60.1-1 «NP V» | | 5 | **overthrow** | present | | knights *= knight* | | | | by this knights | tree rules | | 6 | **sight** | | | blood drops on the snow | | | | | nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=patient | 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. - ← previous: [sentence 19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8447/13/19/) - next →: [sentence 21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8447/13/21/) - ↑ back to [Amen. Notes](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8447/13/)