Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 3, sentence 97
Then he pricked Gringalet with his golden spurs, and rode gaily towards the great gate, and came swiftly to the bridge end.
Who acts: side · What happens: prick, ride, come, spur · To what, where: Gringalet, great gate, bridge end
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 (side), 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 | 3 pricked | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 pricked | nsubj |
| 3 | pricked | prick | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | Gringalet | Gringalet | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 pricked | obj |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 spurs | case |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 spurs | nmod:poss |
| 7 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 spurs | amod |
| 8 | spurs | spur | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 pricked | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 rode | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 rode | cc |
| 11 | rode | ride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 pricked | conj |
| 12 | gaily | gaily | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 rode | xcomp |
| 13 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 16 gate | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 gate | det |
| 15 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 gate | amod |
| 16 | gate | gate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 rode | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 came | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 came | cc |
| 19 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 pricked | conj |
| 20 | swiftly | swiftly | ADV | _ | 19 came | advmod |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 end | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 end | det |
| 23 | bridge | bridge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 end | compound |
| 24 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 came | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 pricked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | prick | past | side | Gringalet | then | with side's golden spurs | vn poke-19-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent gringalet=Patient with spur=Instrument | ||
| 2 | ride | past | side not said here | the great gate | gaily property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent towards gate=Trajectory | |||
| 3 | come | past | side not said here | to the bridge end | swiftly property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to end=Initial_Location | |||
| 4 | spur | side | nom spur «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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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