Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 6, sentence 69
The lady came laughing, and kissed him courteously, and he welcomed her fittingly with a cheerful countenance.
Who acts: lady, knight · What happens: come, laugh, kiss, welcome · To what, where: knight, lady
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, knight), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 lady | det |
| 2 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 came | nsubj |
| 3 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | laughing | laugh | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 came | xcomp |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 kissed | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 kissed | cc |
| 7 | kissed | kiss | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 came | conj |
| 8 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 kissed | obj |
| 9 | courteously | courteously | ADV | _ | 7 kissed | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 welcomed | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 welcomed | cc |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 welcomed | nsubj |
| 13 | welcomed | welcome | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 came | parataxis |
| 14 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 welcomed | obj |
| 15 | fittingly | fittingly | ADV | _ | 13 welcomed | advmod |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 countenance | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 countenance | det |
| 18 | cheerful | cheerful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 countenance | amod |
| 19 | countenance | countenance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 welcomed | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | the lady | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | laugh | gerund | the lady not said here | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | kiss | past | the lady not said here | knight | courteously property | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Co-Agent | |||
| 4 | welcome | past | knight | lady | with a cheerful countenance; fittingly property | vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=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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