Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 2, sentence 21
A lace was twined about it, that looped at the head, and all adown the handle it was clasped with tassels on buttons of bright green richly broidered.
Who acts: that · What happens: twine, loop, clasp, broider · To what, where: lace, head, adown
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: who acts (that), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 lace | det |
| 2 | lace | lace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 twined | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 twined | aux:pass |
| 4 | twined | twine | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | about | about | ADP | _ | 6 it | case |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 twined | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 looped | punct |
| 8 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 looped | nsubj |
| 9 | looped | loop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 twined | conj |
| 10 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 head | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 head | det |
| 12 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 looped | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 clasped | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 clasped | cc |
| 15 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 16 adown | det |
| 16 | adown | adown | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 clasped | nsubj:pass |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 handle | det |
| 18 | handle | handle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 clasped | nsubj:pass |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 clasped | nsubj:pass |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 clasped | aux:pass |
| 21 | clasped | clasp | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 twined | conj |
| 22 | with | with | ADP | _ | 23 tassels | case |
| 23 | tassels | tassel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 clasped | obl |
| 24 | on | on | ADP | _ | 25 buttons | case |
| 25 | buttons | button | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 clasped | obl |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 green | case |
| 27 | bright | bright | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 green | amod |
| 28 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 buttons | amod |
| 29 | richly | richly | ADV | _ | 30 broidered | advmod |
| 30 | broidered | broider | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 28 green | advcl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 twined | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | twine | past · passive | a lace | about work | vn coil-9.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | loop | past | that | the head | vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 3 | clasp | past · passive | all adown | with tassels; on buttons; the handle nsubj:pass | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP PP.co-patient PP.instrument»: subject=Patient with tassel=Instrument on button=Co-Patient | ||||
| 4 | broider | participle | richly property | 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: «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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