Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 4, sentence 30

Then before the hearth-place, whereon the fire burned, they made ready a chair for Gawain, hung about with cloth and fair cushions; and there they cast around him a mantle of brown samite, richly embroidered and furred within with costly skins of ermine, with a hood of the same, and he seated himself in that rich seat, and warmed himself at the fire and was cheered at heart.

Who acts: fire, curtains · What happens: burn, make, hang about, cast, embroider, fur · To what, where: ready chair, mantle, brown samite, fire, rich seat, heart

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 (fire, curtains), 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	6 place	advmod
2	before	before	ADP	_	6 place	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 place	det
4	hearth	hearth	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 place	compound
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 hearth	punct
6	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 burned	punct
8	whereon	whereon	ADV	PronType=Int	11 burned	advmod
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 fire	det
10	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 burned	nsubj
11	burned	burn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 place	parataxis
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 made	punct
13	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 made	nsubj
14	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 burned	parataxis
15	ready	ready	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 chair	amod
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 chair	det
17	chair	chair	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 made	obj
18	for	for	ADP	_	19 Gawain	case
19	Gawain	Gawain	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 chair	nmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 hung	punct
21	hung	hang	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 made	conj
22	about	about	ADV	_	21 hung	advmod
23	with	with	ADP	_	24 cloth	case
24	cloth	cloth	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 hung	obl
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 cushions	cc
26	fair	fair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 cushions	amod
27	cushions	cushion	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 cloth	conj
28	;	;	PUNCT	_	32 cast	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 there	cc
30	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	32 cast	advmod
31	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 cast	nsubj
32	cast	cast	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 burned	conj
33	around	around	ADP	_	34 him	case
34	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 cast	obl
35	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 mantle	det
36	mantle	mantle	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 cast	obj
37	of	of	ADP	_	39 samite	case
38	brown	brown	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 samite	amod
39	samite	samite	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 mantle	nmod
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 embroidered	punct
41	richly	richly	ADV	_	42 embroidered	advmod
42	embroidered	embroider	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	39 samite	acl
43	and	and	CCONJ	_	44 furred	cc
44	furred	fur	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	42 embroidered	conj
45	within	within	ADP	_	48 skins	case
46	with	with	ADP	_	48 skins	case
47	costly	costly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	48 skins	amod
48	skins	skin	NOUN	Number=Plur	44 furred	obl
49	of	of	ADP	_	50 ermine	case
50	ermine	ermine	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 skins	nmod
51	,	,	PUNCT	_	54 hood	punct
52	with	with	ADP	_	54 hood	case
53	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	54 hood	det
54	hood	hood	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 furred	obl
55	of	of	ADP	_	57 same	case
56	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	57 same	det
57	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	54 hood	nmod
58	,	,	PUNCT	_	61 seated	punct
59	and	and	CCONJ	_	61 seated	cc
60	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	61 seated	nsubj
61	seated	seat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 cast	conj
62	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	61 seated	obj
63	in	in	ADP	_	66 seat	case
64	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	66 seat	det
65	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	66 seat	amod
66	seat	seat	NOUN	Number=Sing	61 seated	obl
67	,	,	PUNCT	_	69 warmed	punct
68	and	and	CCONJ	_	69 warmed	cc
69	warmed	warm	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 cast	parataxis
70	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	69 warmed	obj
71	at	at	ADP	_	73 fire	case
72	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	73 fire	det
73	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	69 warmed	obl
74	and	and	CCONJ	_	76 cheered	cc
75	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	76 cheered	aux:pass
76	cheered	cheer	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	69 warmed	conj
77	at	at	ADP	_	78 heart	case
78	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	76 cheered	obl
79	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 place	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	burn	past	the fire			whereon property	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	make	past	curtains = curtain	a ready chair		for Gawain	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent chair=Material for gawain=Beneficiary
3	hang about	past	curtains = curtain not said here			with cloth and fair cushions; about property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	cast	past	curtains = curtain	a mantle of brown samite	there	around fire	vn throw-17.1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent mantle=Theme around he=Destination
5	embroider	participle		brown samite not said here		richly property	vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	fur	participle				within costly skins of ermine; with a hood of the same	tree rules
7	seat	past	fire	fire	that rich seat		vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent himself=Value in seat=Location
8	warm	past		fire	the fire		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent himself=Patient
9	cheer	past · passive			heart		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»

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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🌲 Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 4, sentence 30

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Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 4, sentence 30