Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 4, sentence 56
In figure was she short and broad, and thickly made—far fairer to behold was she whom she led by the hand.
Who acts: lady, thickly · What happens: be, make, behold, lead · To what, where: figure
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, thickly), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 figure | case |
| 2 | figure | figure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 short | obl |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 short | cop |
| 4 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 short | nsubj |
| 5 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 broad | cc |
| 7 | broad | broad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 short | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 made | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 made | cc |
| 10 | thickly | thickly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 made | nsubj |
| 11 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 short | parataxis |
| 12 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 fairer | punct |
| 13 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 14 fairer | advmod |
| 14 | fairer | fair | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 19 whom | amod |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 behold | mark |
| 16 | behold | behold | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 fairer | xcomp |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 whom | cop |
| 18 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 whom | nsubj |
| 19 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 made | advcl |
| 20 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 led | nsubj |
| 21 | led | lead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 whom | acl:relcl |
| 22 | by | by | ADP | _ | 24 hand | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 hand | det |
| 24 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 led | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 short | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | lady | figure | short property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | be | lady not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | make | past | thickly | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | |||||
| 4 | behold | to-infinitive | lady not said here | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 5 | is a | past | lady | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | lead | past | lady | by the hand | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent by hand=Destination |
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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