Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 3, sentence 1
With that he turned his bridle, and galloped out at the hall door, his head in his hands, so that the sparks flew from beneath his horse’s hoofs.
Who acts: he, sparks · What happens: turn, gallop out, fly · To what, where: bridle, hall door, hoofs
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 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (he, sparks), 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 | With | with | ADP | _ | 2 that | case |
| 2 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 turned | obl |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 turned | nsubj |
| 4 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 bridle | nmod:poss |
| 6 | bridle | bridle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 turned | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 galloped | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 galloped | cc |
| 9 | galloped | gallop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 turned | conj |
| 10 | out | out | ADP | _ | 9 galloped | compound:prt |
| 11 | at | at | ADP | _ | 14 door | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 door | det |
| 13 | hall | hall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 door | compound |
| 14 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 galloped | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 head | punct |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 head | nmod:poss |
| 17 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 door | conj |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 hands | case |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 hands | nmod:poss |
| 20 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 galloped | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 flew | punct |
| 22 | so | so | ADV | _ | 26 flew | advmod |
| 23 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 26 flew | mark |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 sparks | det |
| 25 | sparks | spark | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 flew | nsubj |
| 26 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 turned | conj |
| 27 | from | from | ADP | _ | 32 hoofs | case |
| 28 | beneath | beneath | ADP | _ | 32 hoofs | case |
| 29 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 horse | nmod:poss |
| 30 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 hoofs | nmod:poss |
| 31 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 30 horse | case |
| 32 | hoofs | hoof | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 flew | obl |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 turned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn | past | he | his bridle | with that | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent bridle=Theme | |||
| 2 | gallop out | past | he not said here | the hall door and his head | in his hands | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at door=Trajectory | |||
| 3 | fly | past | the sparks | his horse's hoofs | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from hoof=Trajectory |
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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