Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 6, sentence 44

And ever that lovely lady sat by the knight, and with still stolen looks made such feint of pleasing him, that Gawain marvelled much, and was wroth with himself, but he could not for his courtesy return her fair glances, but dealt with her cunningly, however she might strive to wrest the thing.

Who acts: lovely lady, stolen looks, such feint, Gawain, lady, knight · What happens: sit, steal, make, please, marvell, be · To what, where: such feint, knight, thing

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 (lovely lady, stolen looks, such feint, Gawain), 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	_	6 sat	cc
2	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	5 lady	advmod
3	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 lady	det
4	lovely	lovely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 lady	amod
5	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sat	nsubj
6	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	by	by	ADP	_	9 knight	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 knight	det
9	knight	knight	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sat	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 looks	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 looks	cc
12	with	with	ADP	_	15 looks	case
13	still	still	ADV	_	14 stolen	advmod
14	stolen	steal	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 looks	amod
15	looks	look	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 sat	obl
16	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 looks	acl
17	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 feint	amod
18	feint	feint	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 made	obj
19	of	of	SCONJ	_	20 pleasing	mark
20	pleasing	please	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	18 feint	acl
21	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 pleasing	obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 marvelled	punct
23	that	that	SCONJ	_	25 marvelled	mark
24	Gawain	Gawain	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 marvelled	nsubj
25	marvelled	marvell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 sat	conj
26	much	much	ADV	_	25 marvelled	advmod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 wroth	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 wroth	cc
29	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 wroth	cop
30	wroth	wroth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 marvelled	conj
31	with	with	ADP	_	32 himself	case
32	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	30 wroth	obl
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 return	punct
34	but	but	CCONJ	_	41 return	cc
35	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 return	nsubj
36	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	41 return	aux
37	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	41 return	advmod
38	for	for	ADP	_	41 return	case
39	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	41 return	nmod:poss
40	courtesy	courtesy	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 return	compound
41	return	return	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 wroth	conj
42	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	44 glances	nmod:poss
43	fair	fair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	44 glances	amod
44	glances	glance	NOUN	Number=Plur	41 return	nmod
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 dealt	punct
46	but	but	CCONJ	_	47 dealt	cc
47	dealt	deal	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 sat	conj
48	with	with	ADP	_	50 cunningly	case
49	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	50 cunningly	nmod:poss
50	cunningly	cunningly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	47 dealt	obl
51	,	,	PUNCT	_	55 strive	punct
52	however	however	ADV	_	55 strive	advmod
53	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	55 strive	nsubj
54	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	55 strive	aux
55	strive	strive	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	47 dealt	conj
56	to	to	PART	_	57 wrest	mark
57	wrest	wrest	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	55 strive	xcomp
58	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	59 thing	det
59	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	57 wrest	obj
60	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 sat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	sit	past	that lovely lady			by the knight; with stolen looks	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by knight=Location
2	steal	participle			still		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	make	participle	stolen looks not said here	such feint			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset feint=Product
4	please	gerund	such feint not said here	knight			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus he=Experiencer
5	marvell	past	Gawain				tree rules
6	is	past	Gawain not said here			with knight; knight's courtesy return knight Gawain's fair glances conj; wroth property	tree rules
7	deal	past	that lovely lady not said here			with Gawain's cunningly	vn cope-83 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent with cunningly=Theme
8	strive	might	lady			however property	tree rules
9	wrest	to-infinitive	lady not said here	the thing			vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Theme
10	return		knight				nom return «communication intransitive»: poss=agent
11	glance		Gawain				nom glance «act intransitive»: poss=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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🌲 Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 6, sentence 44

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Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 6, sentence 44