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title: The horse’s mane was crisped and plaited with many a knot folded in… — Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-Englis… · tree and pragmatics
description: The horse’s mane was crisped and plaited with many a knot folded in with gold thread about the fair green, here a twist of the hair, here another of gold. 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, 
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# Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 2, sentence 14

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The horse’s mane was crisped and plaited with many a knot folded in with gold thread about the fair green, here a twist of the hair, here another of gold.

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**What happens:** crisp, plait, fold in, twist · **To what, where:** mane, many knot, hair

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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: 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:pg66084:2:14
# text = The horse’s mane was crisped and plaited with many a knot folded in with gold thread about the fair green, here a twist of the hair, here another of gold.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	’s	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	mane	mane	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux:pass	_	_
6	crisped	crisp	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	plaited	plait	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	conj	_	_
9	with	with	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	knot	knot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
13	folded	fold	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	acl	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	RP	_	13	compound:prt	_	_
15	with	with	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	thread	thread	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
18	about	about	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	fair	fair	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	green	green	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
23	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	25	advmod	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	twist	twist	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	hair	hair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
30	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	31	advmod	_	_
31	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	25	conj	_	_
32	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **crisp** | past · passive |  | the horse's mane |  |  |  | a twist of the hair *obl* | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient |
| 2 | **plait** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | with a many knot | vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **fold in** | participle |  | a many knot *not said here* |  |  |  | with gold thread about the fair green | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with thread=Instrument |
| 4 | **twist** |  |  | the hair |  |  |  |  | nom twist «event transitive»: of=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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