--- title: Then he made feint to waken, and turned towards her, and opened his… — Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-Englis… · tree and pragmatics description: Then he made feint to waken, and turned towards her, and opened his eyes as one astonished, and crossed himself; and she looked on him laughing, with her cheeks red and white, lovely to behold. Who acts: lord, wife. 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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, wife), 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:pg66084:5:35 # text = Then he made feint to waken, and turned towards her, and opened his eyes as one astonished, and crossed himself; and she looked on him laughing, with her cheeks red and white, lovely to behold. 1 Then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 3 advmod _ _ 2 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 made make VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 feint feint NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 5 to to PART TO _ 6 mark _ _ 6 waken waken VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 acl _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 9 turned turn VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 10 towards towards ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 14 opened open VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 15 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 16 nmod:poss _ _ 16 eyes eye NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 obj _ _ 17 as as SCONJ IN _ 19 mark _ _ 18 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 19 nummod _ _ 19 astonished astonished ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 22 crossed cross VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 23 himself himself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 22 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 24 ; ; PUNCT : _ 27 punct _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 26 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 nsubj _ _ 27 looked look VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 28 on on ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 29 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 obl _ _ 30 laughing laugh VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 27 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 31 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 32 with with ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 33 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 34 nmod:poss _ _ 34 cheeks cheek NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 obj _ _ 35 red red ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 34 amod _ _ 36 and and CCONJ CC _ 37 cc _ _ 37 white white ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 35 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 38 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 39 lovely lovely ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 35 conj _ _ 40 to to ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 41 behold behold INTJ UH _ 39 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 42 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **make** | past | lord | feint | | | then | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent feint=Product | | 2 | **waken** | to-infinitive | lord *not said here* | feint *not said here* | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 3 | **turn** | past | lord *not said here* | | | | | towards wife | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme towards she=Trajectory | | 4 | **open** | past | | lord's eyes | | | | | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location eye=Theme | | 5 | **cross** | past | lord *not said here* | lord | | | | | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Patient | | 6 | **look** | past | wife | | | | | on lord | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent on he=Theme | | 7 | **laugh** | gerund | wife *not said here* | wife's cheeks | | | | | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cheek=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. 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