Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 5, sentence 32
It was the lovely lady, the lord’s wife; she shut the door softly behind her, and turned towards the bed; and Gawain laid him down softly and made as if he slept.
Who acts: corner, wife, Gawain, lord · What happens: be, shut, turn, lay down, make, sleep · To what, where: lovely lady, door, bed, lord
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 (corner, wife, Gawain, lord), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 lady | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 lady | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 lady | det |
| 4 | lovely | lovely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 lady | amod |
| 5 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 wife | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 lord | det |
| 8 | lord | lord | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 wife | nmod:poss |
| 9 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 8 lord | case |
| 10 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 lady | conj |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 shut | punct |
| 12 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 shut | nsubj |
| 13 | shut | shut | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 lady | conj |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 door | det |
| 15 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 shut | obj |
| 16 | softly | softly | ADV | _ | 13 shut | advmod |
| 17 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 18 her | case |
| 18 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 shut | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 turned | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 turned | cc |
| 21 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 shut | conj |
| 22 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 24 bed | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 bed | det |
| 24 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 turned | obl |
| 25 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 28 laid | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 laid | cc |
| 27 | Gawain | Gawain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 laid | nsubj |
| 28 | laid | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 shut | parataxis |
| 29 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 laid | obj |
| 30 | down | down | ADP | _ | 28 laid | compound:prt |
| 31 | softly | softly | ADV | _ | 28 laid | advmod |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 made | cc |
| 33 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 28 laid | conj |
| 34 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 37 slept | mark |
| 35 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 37 slept | mark |
| 36 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 slept | nsubj |
| 37 | slept | sleep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 made | advcl |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 lady | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | corner | the lovely lady and the lord's wife | the lord's wife conj | tree rules | |||
| 2 | shut | past | wife | the door | behind folk; softly property | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent door=Patient | |||
| 3 | turn | past | wife not said here | the bed | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme towards bed=Trajectory | ||||
| 4 | lay down | past | Gawain | lord | softly property | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Result | |||
| 5 | make | participle | Gawain not said here | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | |||||
| 6 | sleep | past | lord | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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