---
title: In him was naught unsightly; he was taller by half a foot than any k… — Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English… · tree and pragmatics
description: In him was naught unsightly; he was taller by half a foot than any knight who stood beside him, and as yet was he scarce more than a child! Who acts: man, knight. A sentence of «Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch» by Jessie L. Weston, Opening, part 3, with
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8447/3/51/)

<!-- 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 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8447/3/) / 51

# Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 3, sentence 51

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
In him was naught unsightly; he was taller by half a foot than any knight who stood beside him, and as yet was he scarce more than a child!

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** man, knight · **What happens:** be, stand · **To what, where:** naught

<!-- .vabout -->
This is a sentence of «Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch» by Jessie L. Weston, Opening, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, 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:pg8447:3:51
# text = In him was naught unsightly; he was taller by half a foot than any knight who stood beside him, and as yet was he scarce more than a child!
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	naught	naught	PRON	NN	PronType=Neg	9	obl	_	_
5	unsightly	unsightly	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
7	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
8	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
9	taller	tall	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	0	root	_	_
10	by	by	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	half	half	DET	PDT	NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac|PronType=Ind	13	det:predet	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	foot	foot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
14	than	than	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	16	det	_	_
16	knight	knight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
17	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	18	nsubj	_	_
18	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	acl:relcl	_	_
19	beside	beside	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
23	as	as	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	yet	yet	ADV	RB	_	27	obl	_	_
25	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	cop	_	_
26	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
27	scarce	scarce	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	conj	_	_
28	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	27	obj	_	_
29	than	than	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | man |  |  | naught |  | unsightly *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | past | man |  |  |  |  | by half foot; than any knight; tall *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **stand** | past | any knight |  |  |  |  | beside man | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent beside he=Location |
| 4 | **is** | past | man |  |  |  |  | scarce *property* | tree rules |

<!-- .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 50](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8447/3/50/)
- next →: [sentence 52](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8447/3/52/)
- ↑ back to [Opening, part 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8447/3/)