Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 2, sentence 48
The knight on his steed straightened himself in the saddle, and rolled his eyes fiercely round the hall, red they gleamed under his green and bushy brows.
Who acts: knight, eyes · What happens: straighten, roll, gleam · To what, where: Knight, saddle, eyes, hall, green brows
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 (knight, eyes), 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 knight | det |
| 2 | knight | knight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 straightened | nsubj |
| 3 | on | on | ADP | _ | 5 steed | case |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 steed | nmod:poss |
| 5 | steed | steed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 knight | nmod |
| 6 | straightened | straighten | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 6 straightened | obj |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 saddle | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 saddle | det |
| 10 | saddle | saddle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 straightened | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 rolled | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 rolled | cc |
| 13 | rolled | roll | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 straightened | parataxis |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 15 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 rolled | obj |
| 16 | fiercely | fiercely | ADV | _ | 13 rolled | advmod |
| 17 | round | round | ADP | _ | 19 hall | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 hall | det |
| 19 | hall | hall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 rolled | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 red | punct |
| 21 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 hall | amod |
| 22 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 gleamed | nsubj |
| 23 | gleamed | gleam | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 red | acl:relcl |
| 24 | under | under | ADP | _ | 29 brows | case |
| 25 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 brows | nmod:poss |
| 26 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 brows | amod |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 bushy | cc |
| 28 | bushy | bushy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 green | conj |
| 29 | brows | brow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 gleamed | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 straightened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | straighten | past | the knight on Knight's steed | Knight | the saddle | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent himself=Patient | |||
| 2 | roll | past | Knight's eyes | the hall | fiercely property | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent eye=Theme round hall=Trajectory | |||
| 3 | gleam | past | eyes = eye | Knight's green brows | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme under brow=Location |
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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