--- title: The author has a keen eye for effect; a talent for description, deta… — Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-Englis… · tree and pragmatics description: The author has a keen eye for effect; a talent for description, detailed without becoming wearisome; a genuine love of Nature and sympathy with her varying moods; and a real refinement and elevation of feeling which enable him to deal with a _risqué_ situation with an absence of coarseness, not, unf --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66084/1/13/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Mid…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66084/) / [Opening, part 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66084/1/) / 13 # Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 1, sentence 13 The author has a keen eye for effect; a talent for description, detailed without becoming wearisome; a genuine love of Nature and sympathy with her varying moods; and a real refinement and elevation of feeling which enable him to deal with a \_risqué\_ situation with an absence of coarseness, not, unfortunately, to be always met with in a mediæval writer. **Who acts:** author, real refinement, Nature · **What happens:** have, become, vary, enable, deal, not meet · **To what, where:** keen eye, wearisome, Nature, situation, feeling, coarseness 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 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (author, real refinement, Nature), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg66084:1:13 # text = The author has a keen eye for effect; a talent for description, detailed without becoming wearisome; a genuine love of Nature and sympathy with her varying moods; and a real refinement and elevation of feeling which enable him to deal with a _risqué_ situation with an absence of coarseness, not, unfortunately, to be always met with in a mediæval writer. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 author author NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 keen keen ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 eye eye NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 7 for for ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 effect effect NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 9 ; ; PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 talent talent NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 parataxis _ _ 12 for for ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 description description NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 15 detailed detailed ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 conj _ _ 16 without without SCONJ IN _ 17 mark _ _ 17 becoming become VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 15 advcl _ _ 18 wearisome wearisome NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 19 ; ; PUNCT : _ 22 punct _ _ 20 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 21 genuine genuine ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 22 love love NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 parataxis _ _ 23 of of ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 24 Nature Nature PROPN NNP Number=Sing 22 nmod _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 26 sympathy sympathy NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 conj _ _ 27 with with ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 28 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 30 nmod:poss _ _ 29 varying vary VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 30 amod _ _ 30 moods mood NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 31 ; ; PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ _ 32 and and CCONJ CC _ 41 cc _ _ 33 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 34 real real ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 35 amod _ _ 35 refinement refinement NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 nsubj _ _ 36 and and CCONJ CC _ 37 cc _ _ 37 elevation elevation NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 conj _ _ 38 of of ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 39 feeling feeling NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 nmod _ _ 40 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 41 nsubj _ _ 41 enable enable VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 42 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 41 obj _ _ 43 to to PART TO _ 44 mark _ _ 44 deal deal VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 41 xcomp _ _ 45 with with ADP IN _ 48 case _ _ 46 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 48 det _ _ 47 _ _ NOUN NN Number=Sing 48 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 48 risqué risqué NOUN NN Number=Sing 44 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 49 _ _ PUNCT NFP _ 50 punct _ _ 50 situation situation NOUN NN Number=Sing 44 obl _ _ 51 with with ADP IN _ 53 case _ _ 52 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 53 det _ _ 53 absence absence NOUN NN Number=Sing 44 obl _ _ 54 of of ADP IN _ 55 case _ _ 55 coarseness coarseness NOUN NN Number=Sing 53 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 56 , , PUNCT , _ 64 punct _ _ 57 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 64 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 58 , , PUNCT , _ 59 punct _ _ 59 unfortunately unfortunately ADV RB _ 64 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 60 , , PUNCT , _ 64 punct _ _ 61 to to PART TO _ 64 mark _ _ 62 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 64 aux:pass _ _ 63 always always ADV RB PronType=Tot 64 advmod _ _ 64 met meet VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 53 acl:relcl _ _ 65 with with ADP IN _ 69 case _ _ 66 in in ADP IN _ 69 case _ _ 67 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 69 det _ _ 68 mediæval mediæval ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 69 amod _ _ 69 writer writer NOUN NN Number=Sing 64 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 70 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** | present | the author | a keen eye | | | | for effect; a talent for description *parataxis*; a genuine love of Nature and sympathy with author's varying moods *parataxis* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Patient | | 2 | **become** | gerund | the author *not said here* | wearisome | | | | | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | | 3 | **vary** | gerund | | | | | | | vn caused\_calibratable\_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | | 4 | **enable** | present | a real refinement and elevation of feeling | Nature | | | | which *nsubj* | tree rules | | 5 | **deal** | to-infinitive | Nature *not said here* | situation | | | | with a \_ risqué; with a absence of coarseness | vn cope-83 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent with risqué=Theme | | 6 | **not** **meet** | to-infinitive · passive | Nature *not said here* | | | | | with a mediæval writer; always, unfortunately *property* | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: with writer=Co-Agent | | 7 | **love** | | | Nature | | | | | nom love «feeling transitive»: of=patient | | 8 | **elevate** | | | feeling | | | | | nom elevation «event transitive»: of=patient | | 9 | **absent** | | | coarseness | | | | | nom absence «state 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. - ← previous: [sentence 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66084/1/12/) - next →: [sentence 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66084/1/14/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66084/1/)