Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 4, sentence 37

Then they questioned that prince courteously of whence he came; and he told them that he was of the court of Arthur, who is the rich royal King of the Round Table, and that it was Gawain himself who was within their walls, and would keep Christmas with them, as the chance had fallen out.

Who acts: walls, Sir, court, table, Gawain, chance · What happens: question, come, tell, be, keep, fall out · To what, where: prince, walls, rich royal King, Gawain, Christmas · 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 (walls, Sir, court, table), 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 questioned	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 questioned	nsubj
3	questioned	question	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	5 prince	mark
5	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 questioned	obj
6	courteously	courteously	ADV	_	10 came	advmod
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 whence	case
8	whence	whence	ADV	PronType=Int	10 came	advmod
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 came	nsubj
10	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 questioned	advcl
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 told	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 told	cc
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 told	nsubj
14	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 questioned	conj
15	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 told	iobj
16	that	that	SCONJ	_	21 court	mark
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 court	nsubj
18	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 court	cop
19	of	of	ADP	_	21 court	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 court	det
21	court	court	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 told	ccomp
22	of	of	ADP	_	23 Arthur	case
23	Arthur	Arthur	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 court	nmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 King	punct
25	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	30 King	nsubj
26	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 King	cop
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 King	det
28	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 King	amod
29	royal	royal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 King	amod
30	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 court	appos
31	of	of	ADP	_	34 Table	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 Table	det
33	Round	Round	PROPN	Number=Sing	34 Table	compound
34	Table	Table	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 King	nmod
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 Gawain	punct
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 Gawain	cc
37	that	that	SCONJ	_	40 Gawain	mark
38	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 Gawain	nsubj
39	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	40 Gawain	cop
40	Gawain	Gawain	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 told	parataxis
41	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	40 Gawain	nmod
42	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	46 walls	nsubj
43	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	46 walls	cop
44	within	within	ADP	_	46 walls	case
45	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	46 walls	nmod:poss
46	walls	wall	NOUN	Number=Plur	40 Gawain	acl:relcl
47	,	,	PUNCT	_	50 keep	punct
48	and	and	CCONJ	_	50 keep	cc
49	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	50 keep	aux
50	keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	40 Gawain	parataxis
51	Christmas	Christmas	PROPN	Number=Sing	50 keep	obj
52	with	with	ADP	_	53 them	case
53	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	50 keep	obl
54	,	,	PUNCT	_	59 fallen	punct
55	as	as	SCONJ	_	59 fallen	mark
56	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	57 chance	det
57	chance	chance	NOUN	Number=Sing	59 fallen	nsubj
58	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	59 fallen	aux
59	fallen	fall	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	50 keep	conj
60	out	out	ADP	_	59 fallen	compound:prt
61	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 questioned	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	question speech: other	past	walls = wall		prince	then		vn interrogate-37.1.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prince=Recipient
2	come	past	Sir				courteously, whence property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	tell speech: assert	past	Sir		walls = wall			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Recipient
4	is	past	Sir				of the court; of Arthur	tree rules
5	is a	present	the court	the rich royal King			of the Round Table	tree rules
6	is a	past	table	Gawain			Sir nmod	tree rules
7	is	past	Gawain				within walls's walls	tree rules
8	keep	would		Christmas			with walls = wall	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent christmas=Theme
9	fall out	past · perfect	the chance					vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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 37

The tree

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Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 4, sentence 37