Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 8, sentence 117
They asked him how he had fared, and he told them all that had chanced to him—the adventure of the chapel, the fashion of the knight, the love of the lady—at last of the lace.
Who acts: things, King, that · What happens: ask, fare, tell, chance, adventure, love · To what, where: King, things, adventure, chapel, lady · Speech: someone speaks here
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 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (things, King, that), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 asked | nsubj |
| 2 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 asked | iobj |
| 4 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 7 fared | advmod |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 fared | nsubj |
| 6 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 fared | aux |
| 7 | fared | fare | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 2 asked | advcl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 told | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 told | cc |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 told | nsubj |
| 11 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 asked | parataxis |
| 12 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 told | iobj |
| 13 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 16 chanced | det:predet |
| 14 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 chanced | nsubj |
| 15 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 chanced | aux |
| 16 | chanced | chance | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 11 told | ccomp |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 him | case |
| 18 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 chanced | obl |
| 19 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 21 adventure | punct |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 adventure | det |
| 21 | adventure | adventure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 chanced | obl |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 chapel | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 chapel | det |
| 24 | chapel | chapel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 adventure | nmod |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 fashion | punct |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 fashion | det |
| 27 | fashion | fashion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 adventure | conj |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 knight | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 knight | det |
| 30 | knight | knight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 fashion | nmod |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 love | punct |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 love | det |
| 33 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 adventure | conj |
| 34 | of | of | ADP | _ | 36 lady | case |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 lady | det |
| 36 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 love | nmod |
| 37 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 39 last | punct |
| 38 | at | at | ADP | _ | 39 last | case |
| 39 | last | last | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 adventure | conj |
| 40 | of | of | ADP | _ | 42 lace | case |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 lace | det |
| 42 | lace | lace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 last | nmod |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | past | things = thing | King | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | fare | past · perfect | King | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | tell speech: assert | past | King | things = thing | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 4 | chance | past · perfect | that | the adventure of the chapel and the fashion of the knight and the love of the lady and last of the lace | King | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 5 | adventure | the chapel | nom adventure «act transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 6 | love | the lady | nom love «feeling transitive»: of=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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