Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 7, sentence 61
Then he smote Gringalet with his golden spurs, and the steed pranced on the stones and would stand no longer.
Who acts: squire, steed · What happens: smite, prance, stand, spur · To what, where: Gringalet, stones
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 (squire, steed), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 smote | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 smote | nsubj |
| 3 | smote | smite | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | Gringalet | Gringalet | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 smote | obj |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 spurs | case |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 spurs | nmod:poss |
| 7 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 spurs | amod |
| 8 | spurs | spur | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 smote | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 pranced | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 pranced | cc |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 steed | det |
| 12 | steed | steed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 pranced | nsubj |
| 13 | pranced | prance | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 smote | parataxis |
| 14 | on | on | ADP | _ | 16 stones | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 stones | det |
| 16 | stones | stone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 pranced | obl |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 stand | cc |
| 18 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 stand | aux |
| 19 | stand | stand | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 pranced | conj |
| 20 | no | no | ADV | _ | 21 longer | advmod |
| 21 | longer | long | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 19 stand | advmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 smote | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | smite | past | squire | Gringalet | then | with squire's golden spurs | vn hit-18.1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent gringalet=Patient with spur=Instrument | ||
| 2 | prance | participle | the steed | the stones | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on stone=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | stand | would | the steed not said here | long property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | spur | squire | nom spur «communication transitive»: poss=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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