Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 4, sentence 65
For high feast was held, with many dainties and cunningly cooked messes.
What happens: hold, cook · To what, where: messes
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 | For | for | ADP | _ | 3 feast | case |
| 2 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 feast | amod |
| 3 | feast | feast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 held | obl |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 held | aux:pass |
| 5 | held | hold | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 dainties | punct |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 dainties | case |
| 8 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 dainties | amod |
| 9 | dainties | dainty | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 held | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 cooked | cc |
| 11 | cunningly | cunningly | ADV | _ | 12 cooked | advmod |
| 12 | cooked | cook | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 held | conj |
| 13 | messes | mess | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 cooked | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 held | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hold | past · passive | for high feast; with many dainties | vn exist-47.1 «NP V» | |||||
| 2 | cook | participle | messes | cunningly property | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent mess=Patient |
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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