--- title: “Now,” quoth the knight, “I beseech ye, grant me fair hostel.” — Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-Englis… · tree and pragmatics description: “Now,” quoth the knight, “I beseech ye, grant me fair hostel.” Who acts: side. 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 every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66084/3/96/) [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 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66084/3/) / 96 # Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 3, sentence 96 “Now,” quoth the knight, “I beseech ye, grant me fair hostel.” **Who acts:** side · **What happens:** quoth, beseech, grant · **To what, where:** knight, ye, fair hostel, side 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 (side), 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:pg66084:3:96 # text = “Now,” quoth the knight, “I beseech ye, grant me fair hostel.” 1 “ " PUNCT `` _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 Now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 5 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 4 ” " PUNCT '' _ 2 punct _ _ 5 quoth quoth VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 knight knight NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 9 “ " PUNCT `` _ 11 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 10 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj _ _ 11 beseech beseech VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 12 ye ye PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 11 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 14 grant grant VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 conj _ _ 15 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 14 obj _ _ 16 fair fair ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 17 hostel hostel NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 18 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 19 ” " PUNCT '' _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **quoth** | present | | the knight | | | now | | tree rules | | 2 | **beseech** *in a quote* | present | side | ye | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **grant** *in a quote* | infinitive | side *not said here* | fair hostel | side | | | | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent i=Goal hostel=Theme | 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 95](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66084/3/95/) - next →: [sentence 97](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66084/3/97/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66084/3/)