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title: The knight was thus gaily dressed in green, his hair falling around… — Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-Englis… · tree and pragmatics
description: The knight was thus gaily dressed in green, his hair falling around his shoulders, on his breast hung a beard, as thick and green as a bush, and the beard and the hair of his head were clipped all round above his elbows. Who acts: hair. A sentence of «Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-Englis
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# Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 2, sentence 12

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The knight was thus gaily dressed in green, his hair falling around his shoulders, on his breast hung a beard, as thick and green as a bush, and the beard and the hair of his head were clipped all round above his elbows.

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**Who acts:** hair · **What happens:** dress, fall, hang, clip · **To what, where:** knight, green, shoulders, beard, breast, elbows

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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 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hair), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg66084:2:12
# text = The knight was thus gaily dressed in green, his hair falling around his shoulders, on his breast hung a beard, as thick and green as a bush, and the beard and the hair of his head were clipped all round above his elbows.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	knight	knight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux:pass	_	_
4	thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
5	gaily	gaily	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	dressed	dress	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	hair	hair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
12	falling	fall	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	advcl	_	_
13	around	around	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	shoulders	shoulder	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	on	on	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	breast	breast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
20	hung	hang	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	beard	beard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	as	as	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	thick	thick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	conj	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	conj	_	_
28	as	as	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	bush	bush	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	42	cc	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	beard	beard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	nsubj:pass	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	hair	hair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	conj	_	_
38	of	of	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
39	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	40	nmod:poss	_	_
40	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	nmod	_	_
41	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	42	aux:pass	_	_
42	clipped	clip	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	conj	_	_
43	all	all	ADV	RB	_	44	advmod	_	_
44	round	round	ADV	RB	_	42	advmod	_	_
45	above	above	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
46	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	47	nmod:poss	_	_
47	elbows	elbow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	42	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **dress** | past · passive |  | the knight |  | green |  | thus *property* | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 2 | **fall** | gerund | folk's hair |  |  | folk's shoulders |  |  | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme around shoulder=Location |
| 3 | **hang** | past |  | a beard |  | folk's breast |  |  | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent beard=Theme on breast=Destination |
| 4 | **clip** | past · passive |  | the beard and the hair of folk's head |  | folk's elbows |  | round *property* | vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |

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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.

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**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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