Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 4, sentence 29
They were long and flowing, and became him well, and when he was clad in them all who looked on the hero thought that surely God had never made a fairer knight: he seemed as if he might be a prince without peer in the field where men strive in battle.
Who acts: curtains, all, guest, men · What happens: be, flow, become, clad, look, think · To what, where: guest, God, battle · 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 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (curtains, all, guest, men), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 long | nsubj |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 long | cop |
| 3 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 flowing | cc |
| 5 | flowing | flow | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 long | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 became | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 became | cc |
| 8 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 long | conj |
| 9 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 became | obj |
| 10 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 8 became | advmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 clad | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 clad | cc |
| 13 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 16 clad | advmod |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 clad | nsubj |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 clad | aux:pass |
| 16 | clad | clad | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 long | conj |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 them | case |
| 18 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 thought | obl |
| 19 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 25 thought | nsubj |
| 20 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 looked | nsubj |
| 21 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 all | acl:relcl |
| 22 | on | on | ADP | _ | 24 hero | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 hero | det |
| 24 | hero | hero | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 looked | obl |
| 25 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 clad | advcl |
| 26 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 31 made | mark |
| 27 | surely | surely | ADV | _ | 28 God | advmod |
| 28 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 made | nsubj:pass |
| 29 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 made | aux |
| 30 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 31 made | advmod |
| 31 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 25 thought | ccomp |
| 32 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 34 knight | det |
| 33 | fairer | fair | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 34 knight | amod |
| 34 | knight | knight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 made | obj |
| 35 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 37 seemed | punct |
| 36 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 seemed | nsubj |
| 37 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 thought | ccomp |
| 38 | as | as | ADP | ExtPos=ADP | 44 prince | case |
| 39 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 38 as | fixed |
| 40 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 44 prince | nsubj |
| 41 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 44 prince | aux |
| 42 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 44 prince | cop |
| 43 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 44 prince | det |
| 44 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 seemed | obl |
| 45 | without | without | ADP | _ | 46 peer | case |
| 46 | peer | peer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 seemed | obl |
| 47 | in | in | ADP | _ | 49 field | case |
| 48 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 49 field | det |
| 49 | field | field | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 seemed | obl |
| 50 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 52 strive | advmod |
| 51 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 52 strive | nsubj |
| 52 | strive | strive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 49 field | acl:relcl |
| 53 | in | in | ADP | _ | 54 battle | case |
| 54 | battle | battle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 52 strive | obl |
| 55 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 long | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | curtains = curtain | long property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | flow | gerund | curtains = curtain not said here | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | become | past | curtains = curtain not said here | guest | well property | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Patient he=Result | |||
| 4 | clad | past · passive | guest | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | look | past | on the hero; who nsubj | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent on hero=Theme | |||||
| 6 | think speech: other | past | all | in curtains = curtain | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||
| 7 | not make | past · perfect · passive | God | a fairer knight obj | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: subject=Beneficiary knight=Product | ||||
| 8 | seem | past | guest | without peer; in the field | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Theme in field=Attribute | ||||
| 9 | is | might | guest | as a prince | tree rules | ||||
| 10 | strive | present | men | battle | 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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