Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 6, sentence 70
He saw her so glorious and gaily dressed, so faultless of features and complexion, that it warmed his heart to look upon her.
Who acts: knight, lady, complexion · What happens: see, dress, warm, look · To what, where: lady, heart
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 (knight, lady, complexion), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 saw | nsubj |
| 2 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 saw | obj |
| 4 | so | so | ADV | _ | 5 glorious | advmod |
| 5 | glorious | glorious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 saw | xcomp |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 gaily | cc |
| 7 | gaily | gaily | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 glorious | conj |
| 8 | dressed | dress | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 glorious | xcomp |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 faultless | punct |
| 10 | so | so | ADV | _ | 11 faultless | advmod |
| 11 | faultless | faultless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 saw | conj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 features | case |
| 13 | features | feature | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 faultless | obl |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 complexion | cc |
| 15 | complexion | complexion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 features | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 warmed | punct |
| 17 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 19 warmed | mark |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 warmed | nsubj |
| 19 | warmed | warm | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 saw | parataxis |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 heart | nmod:poss |
| 21 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 warmed | obj |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 look | mark |
| 23 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 warmed | advcl |
| 24 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 25 her | case |
| 25 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 look | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | knight | lady | glorious property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | dress | participle | lady not said here | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | warm | past | complexion | knight's heart | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent heart=Patient | ||||
| 4 | look | to-infinitive | complexion not said here | upon lady | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent upon 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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