Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 6, sentence 55
’Twas a fair frosty morning, for the sun rose red in ruddy vapour, and the welkin was clear of clouds.
Who acts: Twas, welkin · What happens: rise, be · To what, where: ruddy vapour
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 (Twas, welkin), 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 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Twas | punct |
| 2 | Twas | twa | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 rose | nsubj |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 morning | det |
| 4 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 morning | amod |
| 5 | frosty | frosty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 morning | amod |
| 6 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Twas | nmod:unmarked |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 rose | punct |
| 8 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 11 rose | mark |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 sun | det |
| 10 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 rose | nsubj |
| 11 | rose | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 rose | xcomp |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 vapour | case |
| 14 | ruddy | ruddy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 vapour | amod |
| 15 | vapour | vapour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 rose | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 clear | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 clear | cc |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 welkin | det |
| 19 | welkin | welkin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 clear | nsubj |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 clear | cop |
| 21 | clear | clear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 rose | conj |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 clouds | case |
| 23 | clouds | cloud | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 clear | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 rose | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rise | past | Twas a fair frosty morning | ruddy vapour | the sun nsubj; red property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in vapour=Location | |||
| 2 | is | past | the welkin | of clouds; clear 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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