Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 2, sentence 14
The horse’s mane was crisped and plaited with many a knot folded in with gold thread about the fair green, here a twist of the hair, here another of gold.
What happens: crisp, plait, fold in, twist · To what, where: mane, many knot, hair
This is a sentence of «Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose» 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: 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
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 horse | det |
| 2 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 mane | nmod:poss |
| 3 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 2 horse | case |
| 4 | mane | mane | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 crisped | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 crisped | aux:pass |
| 6 | crisped | crisp | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 plaited | cc |
| 8 | plaited | plait | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 crisped | conj |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 knot | case |
| 10 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 knot | amod |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 knot | det |
| 12 | knot | knot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 plaited | obl |
| 13 | folded | fold | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 knot | acl |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 folded | compound:prt |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 thread | case |
| 16 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 thread | compound |
| 17 | thread | thread | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 folded | obl |
| 18 | about | about | ADP | _ | 21 green | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 green | det |
| 20 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 green | amod |
| 21 | green | green | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 thread | nmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 twist | punct |
| 23 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 25 twist | advmod |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 twist | det |
| 25 | twist | twist | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 crisped | obl |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 hair | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 hair | det |
| 28 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 twist | nmod |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 another | punct |
| 30 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 31 another | advmod |
| 31 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 25 twist | conj |
| 32 | of | of | ADP | _ | 33 gold | case |
| 33 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 another | nmod |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 crisped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | crisp | past · passive | the horse's mane | a twist of the hair obl | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 2 | plait | participle | with a many knot | vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | fold in | participle | a many knot not said here | with gold thread about the fair green | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with thread=Instrument | ||||
| 4 | twist | the hair | nom twist «event transitive»: of=patient |
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: «Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose» by Jessie L. Weston, Project Gutenberg book 66084 (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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