Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 9, sentence 51
Page 29.—_’Twas the fairest castle that ever a knight owned.
What happens: own · To what, where: fairest castle, Page
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 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | Page | page | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | 29 | 29 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 1 Page | flat |
| 3 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Page | punct |
| 4 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 ’ | punct |
| 5 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 6 ’ | punct |
| 6 | ’ | ' | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Page | conj |
| 7 | Twas | twas | ADP | _ | 10 castle | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 castle | det |
| 9 | fairest | fair | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 10 castle | amod |
| 10 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 ’ | nmod |
| 11 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 owned | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 14 knight | advmod |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 knight | det |
| 14 | knight | knight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 owned | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | owned | own | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 castle | acl:relcl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Page | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | own | participle · passive | the fairest castle | a knight nsubj:pass | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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