Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 3, sentence 44
Then the knight called for his helmet, which was well lined throughout, and set it high on his head, and hasped it behind.
What happens: call, line throughout, set, hasp · To what, where: knight, helmet, head · Speech: someone speaks here
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: 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 called | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 knight | det |
| 3 | knight | knight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 called | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 helmet | case |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 helmet | nmod:poss |
| 7 | helmet | helmet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 called | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 lined | punct |
| 9 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 lined | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 lined | aux:pass |
| 11 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 12 lined | advmod |
| 12 | lined | line | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 helmet | acl:relcl |
| 13 | throughout | throughout | ADP | _ | 12 lined | compound:prt |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 set | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 set | cc |
| 16 | set | set | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 called | conj |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 set | obj |
| 18 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 set | xcomp |
| 19 | on | on | ADP | _ | 21 head | case |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 head | nmod:poss |
| 21 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 set | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 hasped | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 hasped | cc |
| 24 | hasped | hasp | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 set | parataxis |
| 25 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 hasped | obj |
| 26 | behind | behind | ADV | _ | 24 hasped | advmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 called | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call | participle · passive | the knight | then | for bridle's helmet | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: subject=Theme for helmet=Beneficiary | |||
| 2 | line throughout | past · passive | bridle's helmet | well property | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Destination | ||||
| 3 | set | infinitive | helmet | bridle's head | high property | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme on head=Destination | |||
| 4 | hasp | past | helmet | behind 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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