Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 8, sentence 43
My head fell to my feet, and yet I fled not, but thou didst wax faint of heart ere any harm befell.
Who acts: head, I, thou, harm, heart · What happens: fall, not flee, do, befall, faint · To what, where: wax faint
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 (head, I, thou, harm), 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 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 head | nmod:poss |
| 2 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 fell | nsubj |
| 3 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 feet | case |
| 5 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 feet | nmod:poss |
| 6 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 fell | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 fled | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 fled | cc |
| 9 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 11 fled | advmod |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 fled | nsubj |
| 11 | fled | flee | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 fell | conj |
| 12 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 fled | advmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 didst | punct |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 didst | cc |
| 15 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 16 didst | nsubj |
| 16 | didst | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 fell | conj |
| 17 | wax | wax | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 faint | compound |
| 18 | faint | faint | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 didst | obj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 heart | case |
| 20 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 faint | nmod |
| 21 | ere | ere | ADV | _ | 24 befell | advmod |
| 22 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 23 harm | det |
| 23 | harm | harm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 befell | nsubj |
| 24 | befell | befall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 didst | advcl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 fell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fall | past | My head | to my feet | vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to foot=Theme | ||||
| 2 | not flee | past | I | yet | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | do | past | thou | wax faint of heart | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent faint=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | befall | past | any harm | ere property | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | faint | heart | nom faint «event intransitive»: of=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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