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title: For after Christmas comes crabbed Lent, that will have fish for fles… — Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-Englis… · tree and pragmatics
description: For after Christmas comes crabbed Lent, that will have fish for flesh and simpler cheer. 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, Opening, part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of eve
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# Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 3, sentence 15

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For after Christmas comes crabbed Lent, that will have fish for flesh and simpler cheer.

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**Who acts:** that · **What happens:** crab, have · **To what, where:** Lent, fish

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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 3. 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:pg66084:3:15
# text = For after Christmas comes crabbed Lent, that will have fish for flesh and simpler cheer.
1	For	for	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	after	after	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	Christmas	Christmas	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
4	comes	come	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	crabbed	crab	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	Lent	Lent	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	10	nsubj	_	_
9	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	parataxis	_	_
11	fish	fish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
12	for	for	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	flesh	flesh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	simpler	simple	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	16	amod	_	_
16	cheer	cheer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **crab** | present · passive |  | Lent |  |  |  | for Christmas | vn berry-13.7 «NP V NP»: lent=Location |
| 2 | **have** | future | that | fish and simpler cheer |  |  |  | for flesh | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fish=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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