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title: On that morning he rode by a hill, and came into a thick forest, wil… — Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-Englis… · tree and pragmatics
description: On that morning he rode by a hill, and came into a thick forest, wild and drear; on each side were high hills, and thick woods below them of great hoar oaks, a hundred together, of hazel and hawthorn with their trailing boughs intertwined, and rough ragged moss spreading everywhere. Who acts: Sir, r
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# Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 3, sentence 86

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On that morning he rode by a hill, and came into a thick forest, wild and drear; on each side were high hills, and thick woods below them of great hoar oaks, a hundred together, of hazel and hawthorn with their trailing boughs intertwined, and rough ragged moss spreading everywhere.

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**Who acts:** Sir, rough ragged moss · **What happens:** ride, come, be, intertwine, spread · **To what, where:** rough ragged moss, thick forest, high hills, side, trailing boughs

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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 (Sir, rough ragged moss), 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:pg66084:3:86
# text = On that morning he rode by a hill, and came into a thick forest, wild and drear; on each side were high hills, and thick woods below them of great hoar oaks, a hundred together, of hazel and hawthorn with their trailing boughs intertwined, and rough ragged moss spreading everywhere.
1	On	on	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
3	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
4	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	rode	ride	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	by	by	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	hill	hill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
12	into	into	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	thick	thick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	conj	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	drear	drear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	26	punct	_	_
21	on	on	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	23	det	_	_
23	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
24	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	cop	_	_
25	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	hills	hill	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
29	thick	thick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	woods	wood	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	conj	_	_
31	below	below	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nmod	_	_
33	of	of	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
34	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
35	hoar	hoar	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	oaks	oak	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
38	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	26	conj	_	_
40	together	together	ADV	RB	_	39	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
42	of	of	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
43	hazel	hazel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
44	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	45	cc	_	_
45	hawthorn	hawthorn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	conj	_	_
46	with	with	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
47	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	49	nmod:poss	_	_
48	trailing	trailing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	compound	_	_
49	boughs	bough	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	43	nmod	_	_
50	intertwined	intertwine	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	49	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	55	punct	_	_
52	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	55	cc	_	_
53	rough	rough	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	55	amod	_	_
54	ragged	ragged	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	55	amod	_	_
55	moss	moss	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
56	spreading	spread	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	55	acl	_	_
57	everywhere	everywhere	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	56	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
58	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ride** | past | Sir | rough ragged moss |  |  | morning | by a hill; of hazel with hills's trailing boughs and hawthorn | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent of hazel=Trajectory |
| 2 | **come** | past | Sir *not said here* |  |  | a thick forest |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into forest=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **is a** | past |  | high hills and thick woods below hills of great hoar oaks |  | each side |  | thick woods below hills of great hoar oaks *conj*; a hundred *conj* | tree rules |
| 4 | **intertwine** | participle |  | hills's trailing boughs *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn amalgamate-22.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 5 | **spread** | gerund | rough ragged moss *not said here* |  |  |  |  | everywhere *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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