Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 5, sentence 21
At the first sound of the hunt the game quaked for fear, and fled, trembling, along the vale.
Who acts: game · What happens: quake, flee, tremble · To what, where: vale
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 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (game), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 4 sound | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 sound | det |
| 3 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 4 sound | amod |
| 4 | sound | sound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 quaked | obl |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 hunt | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 hunt | det |
| 7 | hunt | hunt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sound | nmod |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 game | det |
| 9 | game | game | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 quaked | nsubj |
| 10 | quaked | quake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 fear | case |
| 12 | fear | fear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 quaked | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 fled | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 fled | cc |
| 15 | fled | flee | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 quaked | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 trembling | punct |
| 17 | trembling | tremble | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 fled | advcl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 vale | punct |
| 19 | along | along | ADP | _ | 21 vale | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 vale | det |
| 21 | vale | vale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 trembling | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 quaked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | quake | past | the game | for fear; at the first sound of the hunt | vn body_internal_states-40.6 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer at sound=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | flee | past | the game not said here | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | tremble | gerund | the game not said here | the vale | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location vale=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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