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title: Then stood Arthur and laughed aloud, and likewise did all the knight… — Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English… · tree and pragmatics
description: Then stood Arthur and laughed aloud, and likewise did all the knights who heard Sir Kay speak. Who acts: knights. A sentence of «Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch» by Jessie L. Weston, Opening, part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every 
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# Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 2, sentence 37

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Then stood Arthur and laughed aloud, and likewise did all the knights who heard Sir Kay speak.

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**Who acts:** knights · **What happens:** stand, laugh, do, hear · **To what, where:** Arthur, knights, Kay speak

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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 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (knights), 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:pg8447:2:37
# text = Then stood Arthur and laughed aloud, and likewise did all the knights who heard Sir Kay speak.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	2	advmod	_	_
2	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	Arthur	Arthur	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	laughed	laugh	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
6	aloud	aloud	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	likewise	likewise	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
11	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	13	det:predet	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	knights	knight	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
14	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	15	nsubj	_	_
15	heard	hear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	acl:relcl	_	_
16	Sir	Sir	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nmod:desc	_	_
17	Kay	Kay	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	speak	speak	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stand** | past |  | Arthur |  |  | then |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer arthur=Stimulus |
| 2 | **laugh** | past |  |  |  |  |  | aloud *property* | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **do** | past |  | all knights |  |  |  | likewise *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent knight=Eventuality |
| 4 | **hear** | past | all knights | Kay speak |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer speak=Stimulus |

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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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