Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 6, sentence 26
He got the mound at his back and faced the hounds, whetting his white tusks and foaming at the mouth.
Who acts: lord · What happens: get, face, whet, foam · To what, where: mound, back, hounds, white tusks, mouth
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 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 got | nsubj |
| 2 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 mound | det |
| 4 | mound | mound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 got | obj |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 back | case |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 back | nmod:poss |
| 7 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 got | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 faced | cc |
| 9 | faced | face | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 got | conj |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 hounds | det |
| 11 | hounds | hound | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 faced | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 whetting | punct |
| 13 | whetting | whet | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 faced | advcl |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 tusks | nmod:poss |
| 15 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 tusks | amod |
| 16 | tusks | tusk | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 whetting | obj |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 foaming | cc |
| 18 | foaming | foam | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 whetting | conj |
| 19 | at | at | ADP | _ | 21 mouth | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 mouth | det |
| 21 | mouth | mouth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 foaming | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 got | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past | lord | the mound | lord's back | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent mound=Theme at back=Asset | |||
| 2 | face | past | lord not said here | the hounds | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme hound=Destination | ||||
| 3 | whet | gerund | lord not said here | lord's white tusks | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | foam | gerund | lord not said here | the mouth | vn entity_specific_modes_being-47.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at mouth=Location |
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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