--- title: By the time the cock had crowed thrice the lord of the castle had le… — Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-Englis… · tree and pragmatics description: By the time the cock had crowed thrice the lord of the castle had left his bed; Mass was sung and meat fitly served. Who acts: lord, meat. A sentence of «Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose» by Jessie L. Weston, Opening, part 5, with its depende --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66084/5/88/) [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 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66084/5/) / 88 # Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 5, sentence 88 By the time the cock had crowed thrice the lord of the castle had left his bed; Mass was sung and meat fitly served. **Who acts:** lord, meat · **What happens:** crow, leave, sing, serve · **To what, where:** cock, bed, Mass 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 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, meat), 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:pg66084:5:88 # text = By the time the cock had crowed thrice the lord of the castle had left his bed; Mass was sung and meat fitly served. 1 By by ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 cock cock NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj:pass _ _ 6 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 aux _ _ 7 crowed crow VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 8 thrice thrice ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 lord lord NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 11 of of ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 castle castle NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ _ 14 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 15 aux _ _ 15 left leave VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 10 acl:relcl _ _ 16 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 17 nmod:poss _ _ 17 bed bed NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 18 ; ; PUNCT : _ 21 punct _ _ 19 Mass Mass PROPN NNP Number=Sing 21 nsubj _ _ 20 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 21 aux:pass _ _ 21 sung sing VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 7 conj _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 23 meat meat NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nsubj _ _ 24 fitly fitly ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ _ 25 served serve VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 21 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 26 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **crow** | past · perfect · passive | | the cock | | | time | thrice the lord | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic | | 2 | **leave** | past · perfect | the lord *not said here* | lord's bed | | | | of the castle | vn leave-51.2-1 «NP V NP.initial\_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme bed=Source of castle=Destination | | 3 | **sing** *speech: express* | past · passive | | Mass | | | | | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme | | 4 | **serve** | past | meat | | | | | fitly *property* | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent | 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 87](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66084/5/87/) - next →: [sentence 89](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66084/5/89/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66084/5/)