Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 6, sentence 30
When the beast was ware of the knight with weapon in hand, he set up his bristles and snorted loudly, and many feared for their lord lest he should be slain.
Who acts: beast, lord, many · What happens: be, set up, snort, fear · To what, where: ware, bristles
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 (beast, lord, many), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 ware | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 beast | det |
| 3 | beast | beast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 ware | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 ware | cop |
| 5 | ware | ware | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 set | obl |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 knight | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 knight | det |
| 8 | knight | knight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 ware | nmod |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 weapon | case |
| 10 | weapon | weapon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 knight | nmod |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 hand | case |
| 12 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 weapon | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 ware | punct |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 set | nsubj |
| 15 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | up | up | ADP | _ | 15 set | compound:prt |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 bristles | nmod:poss |
| 18 | bristles | bristle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 set | obj |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 snorted | cc |
| 20 | snorted | snort | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 set | conj |
| 21 | loudly | loudly | ADV | _ | 20 snorted | advmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 feared | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 feared | cc |
| 24 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 feared | nsubj |
| 25 | feared | fear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 set | conj |
| 26 | for | for | ADP | _ | 28 lord | case |
| 27 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 lord | nmod:poss |
| 28 | lord | lord | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 feared | obl |
| 29 | lest | lest | SCONJ | _ | 33 slain | mark |
| 30 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 slain | nsubj |
| 31 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 33 slain | aux |
| 32 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 33 slain | cop |
| 33 | slain | slain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 feared | advcl |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 set | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the beast | ware | of the knight with weapon in hand | tree rules | |||
| 2 | set up | past | lord | lord's bristles | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient bristle=Result | ||||
| 3 | snort | past | lord not said here | loudly property | vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | fear | past | many | for bristles's lord | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer for lord=Attribute | ||||
| 5 | is | should | lord | slain property | tree rules |
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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