Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 6, sentence 92
With that she loosened a lace that was fastened at her side, knit upon her kirtle under her mantle.
Who acts: lady · What happens: loosen, fasten · To what, where: lace, side
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), 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 | With | with | ADP | _ | 2 that | case |
| 2 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 loosened | obl |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 loosened | nsubj |
| 4 | loosened | loosen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 lace | det |
| 6 | lace | lace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 loosened | obj |
| 7 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 fastened | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 fastened | aux:pass |
| 9 | fastened | fasten | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 lace | acl:relcl |
| 10 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 side | case |
| 11 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 side | nmod:poss |
| 12 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 fastened | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 knit | punct |
| 14 | knit | knit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 lace | conj |
| 15 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 17 kirtle | case |
| 16 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 kirtle | nmod:poss |
| 17 | kirtle | kirtle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 knit | nmod |
| 18 | under | under | ADP | _ | 20 mantle | case |
| 19 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 mantle | nmod:poss |
| 20 | mantle | mantle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 kirtle | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 loosened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | loosen | past | lady | a lace and knit upon lady's kirtle under lady's mantle | with that | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent lace=Patient with that=Instrument | |||
| 2 | fasten | past · passive | a lace and knit upon lady's kirtle under lady's mantle | lady's side | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
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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