---
title: The special quest here referred to is that undertaken in search of L… — Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English… · tree and pragmatics
description: The special quest here referred to is that undertaken in search of Lancelot when he fled from court in a frenzy, induced by Guinevere's jealousy of King Pelles' daughter. Who acts: Sir. A sentence of «Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch» by Jessie L. Weston
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8447/13/54/)

<!-- 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/) / [Amen. Notes](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8447/13/) / 54

# Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Amen. Notes, sentence 54

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
The special quest here referred to is that undertaken in search of Lancelot when he fled from court in a frenzy, induced by Guinevere's jealousy of King Pelles' daughter.

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** Sir · **What happens:** refer, undertake, flee, induce, search · **To what, where:** special quest, search, court, frenzy, Lancelot

<!-- .vabout -->
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 (Sir), 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:pg8447:13:54
# text = The special quest here referred to is that undertaken in search of Lancelot when he fled from court in a frenzy, induced by Guinevere's jealousy of King Pelles' daughter.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	special	special	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	quest	quest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	_
5	referred	refer	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	obl	_	_
7	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux:pass	_	_
8	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
9	undertaken	undertake	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	search	search	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	Lancelot	Lancelot	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
14	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	16	advmod	_	_
15	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	fled	flee	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	advcl	_	_
17	from	from	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	court	court	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	frenzy	frenzy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
23	induced	induce	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	21	acl	_	_
24	by	by	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	Guinevere	Guinevere	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	's	's	PART	POS	_	25	case	_	_
27	jealousy	jealousy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
29	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	nmod:poss	_	_
30	Pelles	Pelles	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	'	's	PART	POS	_	29	case	_	_
32	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **refer** | participle |  | the special quest *not said here* |  | here |  |  | vn relate-86.2-2 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **undertake** | present · passive |  | the special quest |  | search of Lancelot |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality |
| 3 | **flee** | past | Sir |  |  | court |  | in a frenzy | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from court=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **induce** | participle |  | a frenzy *not said here* |  |  |  | by Guinevere's jealousy of King's daughter | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **search** |  |  | Lancelot |  |  |  |  | nom search «act transitive»: of=patient |

<!-- .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 53](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8447/13/53/)
- next →: [sentence 55](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8447/13/55/)
- ↑ back to [Amen. Notes](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8447/13/)