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title: The curtains ran on ropes with rings of red gold, and the walls were… — Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-Englis… · tree and pragmatics
description: The curtains ran on ropes with rings of red gold, and the walls were hung with carpets of Orient, and the same spread on the floor. Who acts: curtains. A sentence of «Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose» by Jessie L. Weston, Opening, part 4, wit
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# Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 4, sentence 27

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The curtains ran on ropes with rings of red gold, and the walls were hung with carpets of Orient, and the same spread on the floor.

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**Who acts:** curtains · **What happens:** run, hang · **To what, where:** ropes, walls

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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 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (curtains), 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:pg66084:4:27
# text = The curtains ran on ropes with rings of red gold, and the walls were hung with carpets of Orient, and the same spread on the floor.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	curtains	curtain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	ran	run	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	on	on	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	ropes	rope	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	rings	ring	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	walls	wall	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj:pass	_	_
15	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux:pass	_	_
16	hung	hang	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
17	with	with	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	carpets	carpet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	Orient	orient	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	spread	spread	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
26	on	on	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	floor	floor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **run** | past | the curtains |  |  | ropes |  | with rings of red gold | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on rope=Trajectory |
| 2 | **hang** | past · passive |  | the walls |  |  |  | with carpets of Orient; the same spread on the floor *obl* | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Patient with carpet=Instrument |

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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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