Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 5, sentence 33
And she came lightly to the bedside, within the curtain, and sat herself down beside him, to wait till he wakened.
Who acts: wife, lord · What happens: come, sit down, wait, waken · To what, where: bedside, wife
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 (wife, 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 came | cc |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 came | nsubj |
| 3 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | lightly | lightly | ADV | _ | 3 came | advmod |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 bedside | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 bedside | det |
| 7 | bedside | bedside | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 came | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 curtain | punct |
| 9 | within | within | ADP | _ | 11 curtain | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 curtain | det |
| 11 | curtain | curtain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 bedside | appos |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 sat | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 sat | cc |
| 14 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 came | parataxis |
| 15 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 14 sat | obj |
| 16 | down | down | ADP | _ | 14 sat | compound:prt |
| 17 | beside | beside | ADP | _ | 18 him | case |
| 18 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 sat | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 wait | punct |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 wait | mark |
| 21 | wait | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 sat | conj |
| 22 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 24 wakened | mark |
| 23 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 wakened | nsubj |
| 24 | wakened | waken | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 wait | advcl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | wife | the bedside | lightly property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to bedside=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | sit down | past | wife | beside lord | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | wait | to-infinitive | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | waken | past | lord | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=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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