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title: And ever that lovely lady sat by the knight, and with still stolen l… — Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-Englis… · tree and pragmatics
description: And ever that lovely lady sat by the knight, and with still stolen looks made such feint of pleasing him, that Gawain marvelled much, and was wroth with himself, but he could not for his courtesy return her fair glances, but dealt with her cunningly, however she might strive to wrest the thing. Who 
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# Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 6, sentence 44

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And ever that lovely lady sat by the knight, and with still stolen looks made such feint of pleasing him, that Gawain marvelled much, and was wroth with himself, but he could not for his courtesy return her fair glances, but dealt with her cunningly, however she might strive to wrest the thing.

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**Who acts:** lovely lady, stolen looks, such feint, Gawain, lady, knight · **What happens:** sit, steal, make, please, marvell, be · **To what, where:** such feint, knight, thing

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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 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lovely lady, stolen looks, such feint, Gawain), 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:pg66084:6:44
# text = And ever that lovely lady sat by the knight, and with still stolen looks made such feint of pleasing him, that Gawain marvelled much, and was wroth with himself, but he could not for his courtesy return her fair glances, but dealt with her cunningly, however she might strive to wrest the thing.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
2	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	5	advmod	_	_
3	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	det	_	_
4	lovely	lovely	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	lady	lady	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	by	by	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	knight	knight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
12	with	with	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	still	still	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	stolen	steal	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	amod	_	_
15	looks	look	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
16	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	acl	_	_
17	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	feint	feint	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
19	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
20	pleasing	please	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	18	acl	_	_
21	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
23	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
24	Gawain	Gawain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
25	marvelled	marvell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
26	much	much	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
29	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	cop	_	_
30	wroth	wroth	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	conj	_	_
31	with	with	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
34	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	41	cc	_	_
35	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	41	nsubj	_	_
36	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	41	aux	_	_
37	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	41	advmod	_	_
38	for	for	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
39	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	41	nmod:poss	_	_
40	courtesy	courtesy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	compound	_	_
41	return	return	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	conj	_	_
42	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	44	nmod:poss	_	_
43	fair	fair	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	44	amod	_	_
44	glances	glance	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	41	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	47	punct	_	_
46	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	47	cc	_	_
47	dealt	deal	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
48	with	with	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
49	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	50	nmod:poss	_	_
50	cunningly	cunningly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	47	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	55	punct	_	_
52	however	however	ADV	RB	_	55	advmod	_	_
53	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	55	nsubj	_	_
54	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	55	aux	_	_
55	strive	strive	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	47	conj	_	_
56	to	to	PART	TO	_	57	mark	_	_
57	wrest	wrest	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	55	xcomp	_	_
58	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	59	det	_	_
59	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	57	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
60	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sit** | past | that lovely lady |  |  |  |  | by the knight; with stolen looks | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by knight=Location |
| 2 | **steal** | participle |  |  |  |  | still |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **make** | participle | stolen looks *not said here* | such feint |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset feint=Product |
| 4 | **please** | gerund | such feint *not said here* | knight |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus he=Experiencer |
| 5 | **marvell** | past | Gawain |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **is** | past | Gawain *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with knight; knight's courtesy return  knight  Gawain's fair glances *conj*; wroth *property* | tree rules |
| 7 | **deal** | past | that lovely lady *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with Gawain's cunningly | vn cope-83 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent with cunningly=Theme |
| 8 | **strive** | might | lady |  |  |  |  | however *property* | tree rules |
| 9 | **wrest** | to-infinitive | lady *not said here* | the thing |  |  |  |  | vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Theme |
| 10 | **return** |  | knight |  |  |  |  |  | nom return «communication intransitive»: poss=agent |
| 11 | **glance** |  | Gawain |  |  |  |  |  | nom glance «act intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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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