Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 4, sentence 50
The fairest of ladies was she in face, and figure, and colouring, fairer even than Guinevere, so the knight thought.
Who acts: charm, knight · What happens: be, think · To what, where: face
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 (charm, knight), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 fairest | det |
| 2 | fairest | fair | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 8 face | obl |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 ladies | case |
| 4 | ladies | lady | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 fairest | nmod |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 face | cop |
| 6 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 face | nsubj |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 face | case |
| 8 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 figure | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 figure | cc |
| 11 | figure | figure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 face | appos |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 colouring | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 colouring | cc |
| 14 | colouring | colouring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 face | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 fairer | punct |
| 16 | fairer | fair | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 14 colouring | amod |
| 17 | even | even | ADV | _ | 19 Guinevere | advmod |
| 18 | than | than | ADP | _ | 19 Guinevere | case |
| 19 | Guinevere | Guinevere | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 fairer | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 thought | punct |
| 21 | so | so | ADV | _ | 24 thought | advmod |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 knight | det |
| 23 | knight | knight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 thought | nsubj |
| 24 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 face | acl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 face | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | charm | face and colouring | the fairest of ladies obl; figure appos; colouring conj | tree rules | |||
| 2 | think speech: other | past | the knight | face and colouring not said here | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot face=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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