Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 5, sentence 31
And as he lay half slumbering, he heard a little sound at the door, and he raised his head, and caught back a corner of the curtain, and waited to see what it might be.
Who acts: lord, corner · What happens: lie, slumber, hear, raise, catch back, wait · To what, where: little sound, door, head, corner · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (lord, corner), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 heard | cc |
| 2 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 4 lay | mark |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 lay | nsubj |
| 4 | lay | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 heard | advcl |
| 5 | half | half | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 6 slumbering | advmod |
| 6 | slumbering | slumber | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 lay | advcl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 lay | punct |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 heard | nsubj |
| 9 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 sound | det |
| 11 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 sound | amod |
| 12 | sound | sound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 heard | obj |
| 13 | at | at | ADP | _ | 15 door | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 door | det |
| 15 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 heard | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 raised | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 raised | cc |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 raised | nsubj |
| 19 | raised | raise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 heard | conj |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 head | nmod:poss |
| 21 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 raised | obj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 caught | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 caught | cc |
| 24 | caught | catch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 raised | conj |
| 25 | back | back | ADV | _ | 24 caught | advmod |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 corner | det |
| 27 | corner | corner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 caught | obj |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 curtain | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 curtain | det |
| 30 | curtain | curtain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 corner | nmod |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 waited | punct |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 waited | cc |
| 33 | waited | wait | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 heard | conj |
| 34 | to | to | PART | _ | 35 see | mark |
| 35 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 33 waited | advcl |
| 36 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 39 be | obj |
| 37 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 39 be | nsubj |
| 38 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 39 be | aux |
| 39 | be | be | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 35 see | ccomp |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 heard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lie | past | lord | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | slumber | gerund | lord not said here | half property | vn snooze-40.4 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | hear | past | lord | a little sound | the door | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer sound=Stimulus | |||
| 4 | raise | past | lord | lord's head | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Theme | ||||
| 5 | catch back | past | lord not said here | a corner of the curtain | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent corner=Theme | ||||
| 6 | wait | past | lord not said here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 7 | see | to-infinitive | lord not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 8 | be | might | corner | what obj | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot what=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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