--- title: The blood spurted forth, and glistened on the green raiment, but the… — Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-Englis… · tree and pragmatics description: The blood spurted forth, and glistened on the green raiment, but the knight neither faltered nor fell; he started forward with out-stretched hand, and caught the head, and lifted it up; then he turned to his steed, and took hold of the bridle, set his foot in the stirrup, and mounted. Who acts: bloo --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66084/2/87/) [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/) / 87 # Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 2, sentence 87 The blood spurted forth, and glistened on the green raiment, but the knight neither faltered nor fell; he started forward with out-stretched hand, and caught the head, and lifted it up; then he turned to his steed, and took hold of the bridle, set his foot in the stirrup, and mounted. **Who acts:** blood, Knight · **What happens:** spurt, glisten, falter, fall, start, stretch · **To what, where:** blood, green raiment, head, steed, hold, foot 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 (blood, Knight), 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:pg66084:2:87 # text = The blood spurted forth, and glistened on the green raiment, but the knight neither faltered nor fell; he started forward with out-stretched hand, and caught the head, and lifted it up; then he turned to his steed, and took hold of the bridle, set his foot in the stirrup, and mounted. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 blood blood NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nsubj _ _ 3 spurted spurt VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 2 acl _ _ 4 forth forth ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 7 glistened glisten VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 conj _ _ 8 on on ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 10 green green ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 raiment raiment NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 13 but but CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 knight knight NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nsubj _ _ 16 neither neither ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 17 faltered falter VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 18 nor nor CCONJ CC Polarity=Neg 19 cc _ _ 19 fell fall VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 17 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 20 ; ; PUNCT : _ 22 punct _ _ 21 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ _ 22 started start VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 17 conj _ _ 23 forward forward ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ _ 24 with with ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 25 out out ADP IN _ 28 case _ SpaceAfter=No 26 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 25 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 27 stretched stretch VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 28 amod _ _ 28 hand hand NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 29 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 31 caught catch VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 22 parataxis _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 34 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 35 and and CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 36 lifted lift VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 31 conj _ _ 37 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 36 obj _ _ 38 up up ADP RP _ 36 compound:prt _ SpaceAfter=No 39 ; ; PUNCT : _ 42 punct _ _ 40 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 42 advmod _ _ 41 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 42 nsubj _ _ 42 turned turn VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 17 parataxis _ _ 43 to to ADP IN _ 45 case _ _ 44 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 45 nmod:poss _ _ 45 steed steed NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 46 , , PUNCT , _ 48 punct _ _ 47 and and CCONJ CC _ 48 cc _ _ 48 took take VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 42 conj _ _ 49 hold hold NOUN NN Number=Sing 48 obj _ _ 50 of of ADP IN _ 52 case _ _ 51 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 52 det _ _ 52 bridle bridle NOUN NN Number=Sing 49 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 53 , , PUNCT , _ 54 punct _ _ 54 set set VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 48 conj _ _ 55 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 56 nmod:poss _ _ 56 foot foot NOUN NN Number=Sing 54 obj _ _ 57 in in ADP IN _ 59 case _ _ 58 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 59 det _ _ 59 stirrup stirrup NOUN NN Number=Sing 54 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 60 , , PUNCT , _ 62 punct _ _ 61 and and CCONJ CC _ 62 cc _ _ 62 mounted mount VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 48 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 63 . . PUNCT . _ 17 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **spurt** | participle | | the blood *not said here* | | | | forth *property* | vn substance\_emission-43.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Source | | 2 | **glisten** | participle | | | | the green raiment | | | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on raiment=Location | | 3 | **falter** | past | the blood | | | | | the knight *nsubj*; neither *property* | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **fall** | past | the blood *not said here* | | | | | | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **start** | past | Knight | | | | | with stretched hand; forward *property* | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V PP.subeventuality»: agent=Eventuality with hand=Subeventuality | | 6 | **stretch** | participle | | | | | | | vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 7 | **catch** | past | | the head | | | | | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Theme | | 8 | **lift up** | past | | head | | | | | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | | 9 | **turn** | past | Knight | | | Knight's steed | then | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme to steed=Trajectory | | 10 | **take** | past | Knight *not said here* | hold of the bridle | | | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hold=Theme | | 11 | **set** | past | Knight *not said here* | Knight's foot | | the stirrup | | | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent foot=Theme in stirrup=Destination | | 12 | **mount** | participle | Knight *not said here* | | | | | | vn meander-47.7 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme | | 13 | **hold** | | | the bridle | | | | | nom hold «act 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. 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