--- title: They came together so keenly that both spears brake, and the crash m… — Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English… · tree and pragmatics description: They came together so keenly that both spears brake, and the crash might be heard afar; they came together so swiftly that the knight was thrust from his saddle, and fell to the ground, and he fell so heavily that he felt the smart in every limb, and lay in anguish from the fall--so stayed he prone --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8447/4/103/) [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 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8447/4/) / 103 # Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 4, sentence 103 They came together so keenly that both spears brake, and the crash might be heard afar; they came together so swiftly that the knight was thrust from his saddle, and fell to the ground, and he fell so heavily that he felt the smart in every limb, and lay in anguish from the fall--so stayed he prone upon the ground. **Who acts:** friends, spears, knight, crash · **What happens:** come together, break, hear, be, fall, feel · **To what, where:** crash, thrust, saddle, anguish, ground This is a sentence of «Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch» by Jessie L. Weston, Opening, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (friends, spears, knight, crash), 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:pg8447:4:103 # text = They came together so keenly that both spears brake, and the crash might be heard afar; they came together so swiftly that the knight was thrust from his saddle, and fell to the ground, and he fell so heavily that he felt the smart in every limb, and lay in anguish from the fall--so stayed he prone upon the ground. 1 They they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 together together ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ 4 so so ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 5 keenly keenly ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ 6 that that SCONJ IN _ 9 mark _ _ 7 both both DET DT PronType=Tot 8 det _ _ 8 spears spear NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 nsubj _ _ 9 brake break VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 crash crash NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nsubj _ _ 14 might might AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 16 aux _ _ 15 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 16 aux:pass _ _ 16 heard hear VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 2 parataxis _ _ 17 afar afar NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 18 ; ; PUNCT : _ 20 punct _ _ 19 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 20 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 21 together together ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ _ 22 so so ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 23 swiftly swiftly ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ _ 24 that that SCONJ IN _ 28 mark _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 knight knight NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nsubj _ _ 27 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 28 cop _ _ 28 thrust thrust NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 advcl _ _ 29 from from ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 30 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 31 nmod:poss _ _ 31 saddle saddle NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 32 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 33 and and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 34 fell fall VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 35 to to ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 36 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 37 ground ground NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 38 , , PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ _ 39 and and CCONJ CC _ 41 cc _ _ 40 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 41 nsubj _ _ 41 fell fall VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 34 conj _ _ 42 so so ADV RB _ 43 advmod _ _ 43 heavily heavily ADV RB _ 41 advmod _ _ 44 that that SCONJ IN _ 46 mark _ _ 45 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 46 nsubj _ _ 46 felt feel VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 41 advcl _ _ 47 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 48 det _ _ 48 smart smart ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 46 xcomp _ _ 49 in in ADP IN _ 51 case _ _ 50 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 51 det _ _ 51 limb limb NOUN NN Number=Sing 46 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 52 , , PUNCT , _ 54 punct _ _ 53 and and CCONJ CC _ 54 cc _ _ 54 lay lay VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 conj _ _ 55 in in ADP IN _ 56 case _ _ 56 anguish anguish NOUN NN Number=Sing 54 obl _ _ 57 from from ADP IN _ 59 case _ _ 58 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 59 det _ _ 59 fall fall NOUN NN Number=Sing 54 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 60 -- -- PUNCT , _ 62 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 61 so so ADV RB _ 62 advmod _ _ 62 stayed stay VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 54 advcl _ _ 63 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 64 nsubj _ _ 64 prone prone NOUN NN Number=Sing 62 obj _ _ 65 upon upon ADP IN _ 67 case _ _ 66 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 67 det _ _ 67 ground ground NOUN NN Number=Sing 62 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 68 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **come together** | past | friends *= friend* | | | | | keenly, together *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **break** | present | both spears | | | | | | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | | 3 | **hear** | might · passive | | the crash | | | | afar *obj* | tree rules | | 4 | **come together** | past | friends *= friend* | | | | | swiftly, together *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **is a** | past | the knight | thrust | | knight's saddle | | | tree rules | | 6 | **fall** | past | | | | | | to the ground | vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to ground=Theme | | 7 | **fall** | past | crash | | | | | heavily *property* | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 8 | **feel** | past | crash | | | | | in every limb; smart *property* | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Theme in limb=Attribute | | 9 | **lay** | infinitive | friends *= friend* *not said here* | | | anguish | | from the fall | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP PP.material»: agent=Agent from fall=Material | | 10 | **stay** | past | friends *= friend* *not said here* | | | the ground | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon ground=Location | | 11 | **prone** | | crash | | | | | | tree rules | 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 102](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8447/4/102/) - next →: [Opening, part 5, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8447/5/1/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8447/4/)