Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 4, sentence 49
Then was the lady fain to look upon that knight; and she came forth from her closet with many fair maidens.
Who acts: lady, charm · What happens: be, look, come · To what, where: 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: who acts (lady, charm), 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 | 5 fain | advmod |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 fain | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 lady | det |
| 4 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 fain | nsubj |
| 5 | fain | fain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 look | mark |
| 7 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 fain | advcl |
| 8 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 10 knight | case |
| 9 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 10 knight | det |
| 10 | knight | knight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 look | obl |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 came | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 came | cc |
| 13 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 came | nsubj |
| 14 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 fain | conj |
| 15 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 14 came | advmod |
| 16 | from | from | ADP | _ | 18 closet | case |
| 17 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 closet | nmod:poss |
| 18 | closet | closet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 came | obl |
| 19 | with | with | ADP | _ | 22 maidens | case |
| 20 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 maidens | amod |
| 21 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 maidens | amod |
| 22 | maidens | maiden | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 closet | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 fain | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the lady | then | fain property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | look | to-infinitive | the lady not said here | upon that knight | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent upon knight=Theme | ||||
| 3 | come | past | charm | charm's closet with many fair maidens | forth property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from closet=Initial_Location |
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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