--- title: The folk served him courteously with many dishes seasoned of the bes… — Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-Englis… · tree and pragmatics description: The folk served him courteously with many dishes seasoned of the best, a double portion. Who acts: folk. 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, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of eve --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66084/4/32/) [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 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66084/4/) / 32 # Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 4, sentence 32 The folk served him courteously with many dishes seasoned of the best, a double portion. **Who acts:** folk · **What happens:** serve, season · **To what, where:** fire, many dishes 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 (folk), 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:pg66084:4:32 # text = The folk served him courteously with many dishes seasoned of the best, a double portion. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 folk folk NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 served serve VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 obj _ _ 5 courteously courteously ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 6 with with ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 dishes dish NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obl _ _ 9 seasoned season VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 8 acl _ _ 10 of of ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 best good ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 9 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 14 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 15 double double ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 portion portion NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 17 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **serve** | past | the folk | | fire | | | with many dishes and a double portion; courteously *property* | vn fulfilling-13.4.1-1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP.theme»: agent=Agent he=Recipient with dish=Theme | | 2 | **season** | participle | | many dishes and a double portion *not said here* | | | | of the best | vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP»: agent=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 31](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66084/4/31/) - next →: [sentence 33](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66084/4/33/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66084/4/)