--- title: With these words up sprang Sir Lancelot of the Lake, and stepped for… — Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English… · tree and pragmatics description: With these words up sprang Sir Lancelot of the Lake, and stepped forward, and spake, and said he would adventure himself and take what fortune should send, and go seek Perceval hither and thither through all lands; "And may I but find that proud knight, an it lieth in my power, hither will I bring h --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8447/2/58/) [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 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8447/2/) / 58 # Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 2, sentence 58 With these words up sprang Sir Lancelot of the Lake, and stepped forward, and spake, and said he would adventure himself and take what fortune should send, and go seek Perceval hither and thither through all lands; "And may I but find that proud knight, an it lieth in my power, hither will I bring him! **Who acts:** Lancelot, fortune, I · **What happens:** spring, step forward, say, adventure, take, send · **To what, where:** Lancelot, spake, Perceval, lands, proud knight, power · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (Lancelot, fortune, I), 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:pg8447:2:58 # text = With these words up sprang Sir Lancelot of the Lake, and stepped forward, and spake, and said he would adventure himself and take what fortune should send, and go seek Perceval hither and thither through all lands; "And may I but find that proud knight, an it lieth in my power, hither will I bring him! 1 With with ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 these this DET DT Number=Plur|PronType=Dem 3 det _ _ 3 words word NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obl _ _ 4 up up ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 5 sprang spring VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 Sir Sir PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 nmod:desc _ _ 7 Lancelot Lancelot PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 8 of of ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 Lake Lake PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 13 stepped step VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 14 forward forward ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 17 spake speak NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 18 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 20 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 21 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ _ 22 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 23 aux _ _ 23 adventure adventure VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 20 ccomp _ _ 24 himself himself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 23 obj _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 26 take take VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 23 conj _ _ 27 what what DET WDT PronType=Int 28 det _ _ 28 fortune fortune NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 nsubj _ _ 29 should should AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 30 aux _ _ 30 send send VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 26 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 31 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 32 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 33 go go VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 34 seek seek VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 33 xcomp _ _ 35 Perceval Perceval PROPN NNP Number=Sing 34 obj _ _ 36 hither hither ADV RB _ 34 advmod _ _ 37 and and CCONJ CC _ 38 cc _ _ 38 thither thither ADV RB _ 36 conj _ _ 39 through through ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 40 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 41 det _ _ 41 lands land NOUN NNS Number=Plur 34 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 42 ; ; PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 43 " " PUNCT '' _ 33 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 44 And and CCONJ CC _ 48 cc _ _ 45 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 48 aux _ _ 46 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 48 nsubj _ _ 47 but but CCONJ CC _ 48 cc _ _ 48 find find VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 49 that that SCONJ IN _ 51 mark _ _ 50 proud proud ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 51 amod _ _ 51 knight knight NOUN NN Number=Sing 48 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 52 , , PUNCT , _ 55 punct _ _ 53 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 55 det _ _ 54 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 55 nsubj _ _ 55 lieth lie VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 51 acl:relcl _ _ 56 in in ADP IN _ 58 case _ _ 57 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 58 nmod:poss _ _ 58 power power NOUN NN Number=Sing 55 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 59 , , PUNCT , _ 63 punct _ _ 60 hither hither ADV RB _ 63 advmod _ _ 61 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 63 aux _ _ 62 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 63 nsubj _ _ 63 bring bring VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 55 conj _ _ 64 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 63 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 65 ! ! PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **spring** | past | | Lancelot Sir of the Lake | | | | with this words | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial\_Location lancelot=Theme | | 2 | **step forward** | past | | spake | | | | forward *property* | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **say** *speech: express* | past | | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 4 | **adventure** | would | Lancelot | Lancelot | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **take** | infinitive | Lancelot *not said here* | | | | | | vn require-103 «NP V for NP S\_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Precondition | | 6 | **send** | should | what fortune | | | | | | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **go** | infinitive | | | | | | | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 8 | **seek** | infinitive | | Perceval | | all lands; thither | | hither *property* | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent perceval=Theme through land=Location | | 9 | **find** *in a quote* | may | I | proud knight | | | | | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent knight=Topic | | 10 | **lie** *in a quote* | present | fortune | proud knight *not said here* | | my power | | | tree rules | | 11 | **bring** *in a quote* | future | I | | Perceval | | | hither *property* | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument he=Destination | 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 57](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8447/2/57/) - next →: [sentence 59](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8447/2/59/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8447/2/)