Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 4, sentence 45
Thither went the lord, and the lady also, and entered with her maidens into a comely closet, and thither also went Gawain.
What happens: go, enter · To what, where: lord, comely closet
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: 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 | Thither | thither | ADV | _ | 2 went | advmod |
| 2 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 lord | det |
| 4 | lord | lord | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 went | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 lady | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 lady | cc |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 lady | det |
| 8 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 went | obl |
| 9 | also | also | ADV | _ | 8 lady | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 entered | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 entered | cc |
| 12 | entered | enter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 went | conj |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 maidens | case |
| 14 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 maidens | nmod:poss |
| 15 | maidens | maiden | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 entered | obl |
| 16 | into | into | ADP | _ | 19 closet | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 closet | det |
| 18 | comely | comely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 closet | amod |
| 19 | closet | closet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 entered | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 went | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 went | cc |
| 22 | thither | thither | ADV | _ | 24 went | advmod |
| 23 | also | also | ADV | _ | 24 went | advmod |
| 24 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 went | parataxis |
| 25 | Gawain | Gawain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 went | flat |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | the lord | the lady obl; thither property | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location lord=Theme | ||||
| 2 | enter | past | a comely closet | with Christ's maidens | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into closet=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | go | past | Gawain flat; thither property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «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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