--- title: With that he laughed so loudly that the blood rushed to the king’s f… — Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-Englis… · tree and pragmatics description: With that he laughed so loudly that the blood rushed to the king’s fair face for very shame; he waxed wroth, as did all his knights, and sprang to his feet, and drew near to the stranger and said, “Now by heaven foolish is thine asking, and thy folly shall find its fitting answer. Who acts: renown, --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66084/2/52/) [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 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66084/2/) / 52 # Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 2, sentence 52 With that he laughed so loudly that the blood rushed to the king’s fair face for very shame; he waxed wroth, as did all his knights, and sprang to his feet, and drew near to the stranger and said, “Now by heaven foolish is thine asking, and thy folly shall find its fitting answer. **Who acts:** renown, heaven, folly · **What happens:** laugh, rush, wax, do, spring, draw · **To what, where:** blood, knights, feet, stranger, fitting answer · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (renown, heaven, folly), 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:pg66084:2:52 # text = With that he laughed so loudly that the blood rushed to the king’s fair face for very shame; he waxed wroth, as did all his knights, and sprang to his feet, and drew near to the stranger and said, “Now by heaven foolish is thine asking, and thy folly shall find its fitting answer. 1 With with ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 4 obl _ _ 3 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 4 laughed laugh VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 so so ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 6 loudly loudly ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 7 that that SCONJ IN _ 9 mark _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 blood blood NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 advcl _ _ 10 rushed rush VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 9 acl _ _ 11 to to ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 14 ’s 's PART POS _ 13 case _ _ 15 fair fair ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 face face NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ _ 17 for for ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 very very ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ _ 19 shame shame NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 20 ; ; PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 21 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ _ 22 waxed wax VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 23 wroth wroth ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 24 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 25 as as SCONJ IN _ 26 mark _ _ 26 did do VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 22 conj _ _ 27 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 29 det:predet _ _ 28 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 29 nmod:poss _ _ 29 knights knight NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 30 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 32 sprang spring VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 33 to to ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 34 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 35 nmod:poss _ _ 35 feet foot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 32 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 36 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 37 and and CCONJ CC _ 38 cc _ _ 38 drew draw VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 39 near near ADV RB _ 38 advmod _ _ 40 to to ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 41 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 42 det _ _ 42 stranger stranger NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 obl _ _ 43 and and CCONJ CC _ 44 cc _ _ 44 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 45 , , PUNCT , _ 49 punct _ _ 46 “ " PUNCT `` _ 49 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 47 Now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 49 advmod _ _ 48 by by ADP IN _ 49 case _ _ 49 heaven heaven NOUN NN Number=Sing 53 nsubj _ _ 50 foolish foolish ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 49 amod _ _ 51 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 53 aux _ _ 52 thine thy PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 53 nsubj _ _ 53 asking ask VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 44 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 54 , , PUNCT , _ 59 punct _ _ 55 and and CCONJ CC _ 59 cc _ _ 56 thy thy PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 57 nmod:poss _ _ 57 folly folly NOUN NN Number=Sing 59 nsubj _ _ 58 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 59 aux _ _ 59 find find VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 53 conj _ _ 60 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 62 nmod:poss _ _ 61 fitting fitting ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 62 amod _ _ 62 answer answer NOUN NN Number=Sing 59 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 63 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **laugh** | past | renown | | | | | with that; the blood *advcl*; loudly *property* | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **rush** | participle | | the blood *not said here* | | | | to the king's fair face *result*; for shame | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to face=Result | | 3 | **wax** | past | renown | | | | | wroth *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **do** | past | renown *not said here* | renown's knights | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent knight=Eventuality | | 5 | **spring** | past | renown *not said here* | | | renown's feet | | | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to foot=Destination | | 6 | **draw** | past | renown *not said here* | | | the stranger | | near *property* | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent to stranger=Destination | | 7 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | renown *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 8 | **ask** *speech: ask* *in a quote* | present · progressive | heaven | | | | | thine *nsubj* | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 9 | **find** *in a quote* | shall | thy folly | folly's fitting answer | | | | | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent answer=Topic | | 10 | **answer** *in a quote* | | folly | | | | | | nom answer «communication transitive»: poss=agent | 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 51](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66084/2/51/) - next →: [sentence 53](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66084/2/53/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66084/2/)