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title: A lace was twined about it, that looped at the head, and all adown t… — Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-Englis… · tree and pragmatics
description: A lace was twined about it, that looped at the head, and all adown the handle it was clasped with tassels on buttons of bright green richly broidered. Who acts: that. A sentence of «Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose» by Jessie L. Weston, Openi
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# Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 2, sentence 21

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A lace was twined about it, that looped at the head, and all adown the handle it was clasped with tassels on buttons of bright green richly broidered.

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**Who acts:** that · **What happens:** twine, loop, clasp, broider · **To what, where:** lace, head, adown

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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 (that), 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:pg66084:2:21
# text = A lace was twined about it, that looped at the head, and all adown the handle it was clasped with tassels on buttons of bright green richly broidered.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	lace	lace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	twined	twine	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	about	about	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	9	nsubj	_	_
9	looped	loop	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
10	at	at	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
15	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	16	det	_	_
16	adown	adown	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj:pass	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	handle	handle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj:pass	_	_
19	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj:pass	_	_
20	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux:pass	_	_
21	clasped	clasp	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	_
22	with	with	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	tassels	tassel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obl	_	_
24	on	on	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	buttons	button	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obl	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	bright	bright	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
29	richly	richly	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
30	broidered	broider	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	28	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **twine** | past · passive |  | a lace |  |  |  | about work | vn coil-9.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **loop** | past | that |  |  | the head |  |  | vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **clasp** | past · passive |  | all adown |  |  |  | with tassels; on buttons; the handle *nsubj:pass* | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP PP.co-patient PP.instrument»: subject=Patient with tassel=Instrument on button=Co-Patient |
| 4 | **broider** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | richly *property* | tree rules |

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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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