Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 8, sentence 58
He lifted the axe lightly and let it fall with the edge of the blade on the bare neck.
Who acts: marvel, axe · What happens: lift, let, fall · To what, where: axe
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 (marvel, axe), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 lifted | nsubj |
| 2 | lifted | lift | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 axe | det |
| 4 | axe | axe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 lifted | obj |
| 5 | lightly | lightly | ADV | _ | 2 lifted | advmod |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 let | cc |
| 7 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 lifted | conj |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 let | obj |
| 9 | fall | fall | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 let | xcomp |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 edge | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 edge | det |
| 12 | edge | edge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 fall | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 blade | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 blade | det |
| 15 | blade | blade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 edge | nmod |
| 16 | on | on | ADP | _ | 19 neck | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 neck | det |
| 18 | bare | bare | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 neck | amod |
| 19 | neck | neck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 blade | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 lifted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lift | past | marvel | the axe | lightly property | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent axe=Theme | |||
| 2 | let | infinitive | marvel not said here | axe | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | fall | infinitive | axe not said here | with the edge of the blade on the bare neck | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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