Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 6, sentence 64
But the fair lady of the castle rose betimes, and clad herself in a rich mantle that reached even to the ground, and was bordered and lined with costly furs.
Who acts: fair lady, rich mantle · What happens: rise, clad, reach, border, line · To what, where: lady, rich mantle
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 (fair lady, rich mantle), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 8 rose | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 lady | det |
| 3 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 lady | amod |
| 4 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 rose | nsubj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 castle | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 castle | det |
| 7 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 lady | nmod |
| 8 | rose | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | betimes | betimes | ADV | _ | 8 rose | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 clad | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 clad | cc |
| 12 | clad | clad | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 rose | conj |
| 13 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 12 clad | obj |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 mantle | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 mantle | det |
| 16 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 mantle | amod |
| 17 | mantle | mantle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 clad | obl |
| 18 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 reached | nsubj |
| 19 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 mantle | acl:relcl |
| 20 | even | even | ADV | _ | 23 ground | advmod |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 ground | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 ground | det |
| 23 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 reached | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 bordered | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 bordered | cc |
| 26 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 bordered | aux:pass |
| 27 | bordered | border | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 rose | conj |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 lined | cc |
| 29 | lined | line | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 27 bordered | conj |
| 30 | with | with | ADP | _ | 32 furs | case |
| 31 | costly | costly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 furs | amod |
| 32 | furs | fur | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 lined | obl |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 rose | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rise | past | the fair lady of the castle | betimes property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | clad | past | the fair lady of the castle not said here | lady | a rich mantle | tree rules | |||
| 3 | reach | past | a rich mantle | to the ground | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | border | past · passive | the fair lady of the castle not said here | vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP» | |||||
| 5 | line | participle | the fair lady of the castle not said here | with costly furs | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with fur=Theme |
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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