Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 2, sentence 55
Lightly he sprang to him and caught at his hand, and the knight, fierce of aspect, lighted down from his charger.
Who acts: heaven · What happens: spring, catch, light down · To what, where: renown, hand, knight, charger
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 (heaven), 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 | Lightly | lightly | ADV | _ | 3 sprang | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 sprang | nsubj |
| 3 | sprang | spring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 him | case |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 sprang | obl |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 caught | cc |
| 7 | caught | catch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 sprang | conj |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 hand | case |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 hand | nmod:poss |
| 10 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 caught | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 lighted | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 lighted | cc |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 knight | det |
| 14 | knight | knight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 lighted | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 fierce | punct |
| 16 | fierce | fierce | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 knight | amod |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 aspect | case |
| 18 | aspect | aspect | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 fierce | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 lighted | punct |
| 20 | lighted | light | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 sprang | conj |
| 21 | down | down | ADP | _ | 20 lighted | compound:prt |
| 22 | from | from | ADP | _ | 24 charger | case |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 charger | nmod:poss |
| 24 | charger | charger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 lighted | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 sprang | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spring | past | heaven | renown | lightly property | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to he=Destination | |||
| 2 | catch | past | heaven not said here | heaven's hand | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent at hand=Asset | ||||
| 3 | light down | participle · passive | the knight | heaven's charger | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Product from charger=Material |
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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