--- title: And as he lay half slumbering, he heard a little sound at the door,… — Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-Englis… · tree and pragmatics description: And as he lay half slumbering, he heard a little sound at the door, and he raised his head, and caught back a corner of the curtain, and waited to see what it might be. Who acts: lord, corner. 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Weston, Opening, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lord, corner), 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:pg66084:5:31 # text = And as he lay half slumbering, he heard a little sound at the door, and he raised his head, and caught back a corner of the curtain, and waited to see what it might be. 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 2 as as SCONJ IN _ 4 mark _ _ 3 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 4 lay lie VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 advcl _ _ 5 half half ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac 6 advmod _ _ 6 slumbering slumber VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 4 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 8 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _ 9 heard hear VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 11 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 sound sound NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ _ 13 at at ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 door door NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 18 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 19 raised raise VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ _ 20 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 21 nmod:poss _ _ 21 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 24 caught catch VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 19 conj _ _ 25 back back ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 26 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 corner corner NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obj _ _ 28 of of ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 curtain curtain NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 31 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 32 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 33 waited wait VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ _ 34 to to PART TO _ 35 mark _ _ 35 see see VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 33 advcl _ _ 36 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 39 obj _ _ 37 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 39 nsubj _ _ 38 might might AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 39 aux _ _ 39 be be VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 35 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 40 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **lie** | past | lord | | | | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **slumber** | gerund | lord *not said here* | | | | | half *property* | vn snooze-40.4 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **hear** | past | lord | a little sound | | the door | | | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer sound=Stimulus | | 4 | **raise** | past | lord | lord's head | | | | | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Theme | | 5 | **catch back** | past | lord *not said here* | a corner of the curtain | | | | | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent corner=Theme | | 6 | **wait** | past | lord *not said here* | | | | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 7 | **see** | to-infinitive | lord *not said here* | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | | 8 | **be** | might | corner | | | | | what *obj* | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot what=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 30](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66084/5/30/) - next →: [sentence 32](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66084/5/32/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66084/5/)