Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 6, sentence 66
Thus she came into the chamber and set open a window, and called to him gaily, “Sir Knight, how may ye sleep?
Who acts: lady, ye · What happens: come, set, open, call, sleep · To what, where: chamber, window, network · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (lady, ye), 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 | Thus | thus | ADV | _ | 3 came | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 came | nsubj |
| 3 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | into | into | ADP | _ | 6 chamber | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 chamber | det |
| 6 | chamber | chamber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 came | obl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 set | cc |
| 8 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 came | conj |
| 9 | open | open | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 set | xcomp |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 window | det |
| 11 | window | window | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 open | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 called | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 called | cc |
| 14 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 came | advcl |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 him | case |
| 16 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 called | obl |
| 17 | gaily | gaily | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 called | xcomp |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 Knight | punct |
| 19 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 Knight | punct |
| 20 | Sir | Sir | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 Knight | nmod:desc |
| 21 | Knight | Knight | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 called | xcomp |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 sleep | punct |
| 23 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 26 sleep | advmod |
| 24 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 sleep | aux |
| 25 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 26 sleep | nsubj |
| 26 | sleep | sleep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 Knight | conj |
| 27 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | lady | the chamber | thus property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into chamber=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | set | past | lady not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | open | infinitive | lady not said here | a window | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location window=Theme | ||||
| 4 | call speech: ask | participle | lady not said here | network | Knight Sir xcomp; gaily property | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient | |||
| 5 | sleep in a quote | may | ye | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=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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