Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 7, sentence 43
The snow drave smartly, and the whistling wind blew from the heights, and made great drifts in the valleys.
Who acts: snow, whistling wind · What happens: drave, blow, make · To what, where: great drifts, valleys
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 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (snow, whistling wind), 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 snow | det |
| 2 | snow | snow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 drave | nsubj |
| 3 | drave | drave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | smartly | smartly | ADV | _ | 3 drave | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 blew | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 blew | cc |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 wind | det |
| 8 | whistling | whistling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 wind | compound |
| 9 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 blew | nsubj |
| 10 | blew | blow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 drave | advcl |
| 11 | from | from | ADP | _ | 13 heights | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 heights | det |
| 13 | heights | height | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 blew | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 made | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 made | cc |
| 16 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 blew | conj |
| 17 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 drifts | amod |
| 18 | drifts | drift | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 made | obj |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 valleys | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 valleys | det |
| 21 | valleys | valley | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 made | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 drave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | drave | infinitive | the snow | smartly property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | blow | past | the whistling wind | from the heights | vn split-23.2 «NP V PP.co-patient»: agent=Patient from height=Co-Patient | ||||
| 3 | make | past | the whistling wind not said here | great drifts | the valleys | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset drift=Product |
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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