Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 5, sentence 35
Then he made feint to waken, and turned towards her, and opened his eyes as one astonished, and crossed himself; and she looked on him laughing, with her cheeks red and white, lovely to behold.
Who acts: lord, wife · What happens: make, waken, turn, open, cross, look · To what, where: feint, eyes, lord, cheeks
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, wife), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 made | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 made | nsubj |
| 3 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | feint | feint | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 made | obj |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 waken | mark |
| 6 | waken | waken | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 feint | acl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 turned | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 turned | cc |
| 9 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 made | conj |
| 10 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 11 her | case |
| 11 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 turned | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 opened | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 opened | cc |
| 14 | opened | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 made | parataxis |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 16 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 opened | obj |
| 17 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 19 astonished | mark |
| 18 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 19 astonished | nummod |
| 19 | astonished | astonished | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 opened | advcl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 crossed | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 crossed | cc |
| 22 | crossed | cross | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 made | conj |
| 23 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 22 crossed | obj |
| 24 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 27 looked | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 looked | cc |
| 26 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 looked | nsubj |
| 27 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 made | conj |
| 28 | on | on | ADP | _ | 29 him | case |
| 29 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 looked | obl |
| 30 | laughing | laugh | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 27 looked | advcl |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 cheeks | punct |
| 32 | with | with | ADP | _ | 34 cheeks | case |
| 33 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 34 cheeks | nmod:poss |
| 34 | cheeks | cheek | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 laughing | obj |
| 35 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 cheeks | amod |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 white | cc |
| 37 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 red | conj |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 lovely | punct |
| 39 | lovely | lovely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 red | conj |
| 40 | to | to | ADP | _ | 41 behold | case |
| 41 | behold | behold | INTJ | _ | 39 lovely | discourse |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past | lord | feint | then | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent feint=Product | |||
| 2 | waken | to-infinitive | lord not said here | feint not said here | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 3 | turn | past | lord not said here | towards wife | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme towards she=Trajectory | ||||
| 4 | open | past | lord's eyes | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location eye=Theme | |||||
| 5 | cross | past | lord not said here | lord | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Patient | ||||
| 6 | look | past | wife | on lord | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent on he=Theme | ||||
| 7 | laugh | gerund | wife not said here | wife's cheeks | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cheek=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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