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title: The fairest of ladies was she in face, and figure, and colouring, fa… — Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-Englis… · tree and pragmatics
description: The fairest of ladies was she in face, and figure, and colouring, fairer even than Guinevere, so the knight thought. Who acts: charm, knight. 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 depe
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# Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 4, sentence 50

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The fairest of ladies was she in face, and figure, and colouring, fairer even than Guinevere, so the knight thought.

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**Who acts:** charm, knight · **What happens:** be, think · **To what, where:** face

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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 (charm, knight), 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:pg66084:4:50
# text = The fairest of ladies was she in face, and figure, and colouring, fairer even than Guinevere, so the knight thought.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	fairest	fair	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	8	obl	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	ladies	lady	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
6	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	figure	figure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	colouring	colouring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	fairer	fair	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	14	amod	_	_
17	even	even	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
18	than	than	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	Guinevere	Guinevere	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
21	so	so	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	knight	knight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
24	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | charm |  |  | face and colouring |  | the fairest of ladies *obl*; figure *appos*; colouring *conj* | tree rules |
| 2 | **think** *speech: other* | past | the knight | face and colouring *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot face=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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