Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 6, sentence 59
At last by a little ditch he leapt out of a spinney, stole away slily by a copse path, and so out of the wood and away from the bounds.
Who acts: fox · What happens: leapt out, steal away · To what, where: spinney, last
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 (fox), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 last | case |
| 2 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 leapt | obl |
| 3 | by | by | ADP | _ | 6 ditch | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 ditch | det |
| 5 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 ditch | amod |
| 6 | ditch | ditch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 leapt | obl |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 leapt | nsubj |
| 8 | leapt | leapt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | out | out | ADP | _ | 12 spinney | case |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 spinney | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 spinney | det |
| 12 | spinney | spinney | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 leapt | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 stole | punct |
| 14 | stole | steal | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 leapt | conj |
| 15 | away | away | ADV | _ | 14 stole | advmod |
| 16 | slily | slily | ADV | _ | 14 stole | advmod |
| 17 | by | by | ADP | _ | 20 path | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 path | det |
| 19 | copse | copse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 path | compound |
| 20 | path | path | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 stole | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 wood | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 wood | cc |
| 23 | so | so | ADV | _ | 27 wood | advmod |
| 24 | out | out | ADP | _ | 27 wood | case |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 wood | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 wood | det |
| 27 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 leapt | parataxis |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 away | cc |
| 29 | away | away | ADV | _ | 27 wood | conj |
| 30 | from | from | ADP | _ | 32 bounds | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 bounds | det |
| 32 | bounds | bound | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 away | obl |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 leapt | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leapt out | past | fox | a spinney | last | by a little ditch; the wood parataxis | tree rules | ||
| 2 | steal away | past | fox not said here | by a copse path; away, slily property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by path=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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