Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 2, sentence 3
As the sound of the music ceased, and the first course had been fitly served, there came in at the hall door one terrible to behold, of stature greater than any on earth; from neck to loin so strong and thickly made, and with limbs so long and so great that he seemed even as a giant.
Who acts: folk · What happens: cease, serve, come in, make, seem · To what, where: neck, first course, one, hall door, giant
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 (folk), 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 | As | as | ADP | _ | 3 sound | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 sound | det |
| 3 | sound | sound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 ceased | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 music | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 music | det |
| 6 | music | music | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 ceased | obl |
| 7 | ceased | cease | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 served | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 served | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 course | det |
| 11 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 12 course | amod |
| 12 | course | course | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 served | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 served | aux |
| 14 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 16 served | aux:pass |
| 15 | fitly | fitly | ADV | _ | 16 served | advmod |
| 16 | served | serve | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 ceased | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 came | punct |
| 18 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 19 came | expl |
| 19 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 ceased | conj |
| 20 | in | in | ADV | _ | 19 came | advmod |
| 21 | at | at | ADP | _ | 24 door | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 door | det |
| 23 | hall | hall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 door | compound |
| 24 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 came | obl |
| 25 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 19 came | obl |
| 26 | terrible | terrible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 one | amod |
| 27 | to | to | ADP | _ | 28 behold | case |
| 28 | behold | behold | INTJ | _ | 26 terrible | discourse |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 greater | punct |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 stature | case |
| 31 | stature | stature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 greater | obl |
| 32 | greater | great | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 19 came | parataxis |
| 33 | than | than | ADP | _ | 34 any | case |
| 34 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 32 greater | obl |
| 35 | on | on | ADP | _ | 36 earth | case |
| 36 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 any | nmod |
| 37 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 39 neck | punct |
| 38 | from | from | ADP | _ | 39 neck | case |
| 39 | neck | neck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 ceased | obl |
| 40 | to | to | ADP | _ | 41 loin | case |
| 41 | loin | loin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 neck | nmod |
| 42 | so | so | ADV | _ | 43 strong | advmod |
| 43 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 loin | amod |
| 44 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 45 thickly | cc |
| 45 | thickly | thickly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 43 strong | conj |
| 46 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 43 strong | xcomp |
| 47 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 50 limbs | punct |
| 48 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 50 limbs | cc |
| 49 | with | with | ADP | _ | 50 limbs | case |
| 50 | limbs | limb | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 ceased | obl |
| 51 | so | so | ADV | _ | 52 long | advmod |
| 52 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 50 limbs | advmod |
| 53 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 55 great | cc |
| 54 | so | so | ADV | _ | 55 great | advmod |
| 55 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 52 long | conj |
| 56 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 58 seemed | mark |
| 57 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 58 seemed | nsubj |
| 58 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 55 great | advcl |
| 59 | even | even | ADV | _ | 62 giant | advmod |
| 60 | as | as | ADP | _ | 62 giant | case |
| 61 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 62 giant | det |
| 62 | giant | giant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 58 seemed | xcomp |
| 63 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 ceased | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cease | past | neck to loin | as the sound; of the music; with limbs | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality PP.subeventuality»: agent=Affector with limb=Subeventuality | ||||
| 2 | serve | past · perfect · passive | the first course | fitly property | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Attribute | ||||
| 3 | come in | past | one | the hall door; there | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at door=Location | ||||
| 4 | make | participle | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | ||||||
| 5 | seem | past | folk | a giant | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme |
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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