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title: But the fair lady of the castle rose betimes, and clad herself in a… — Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-Englis… · tree and pragmatics
description: But the fair lady of the castle rose betimes, and clad herself in a rich mantle that reached even to the ground, and was bordered and lined with costly furs. Who acts: fair lady, rich mantle. A sentence of «Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose» b
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# Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 6, sentence 64

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But the fair lady of the castle rose betimes, and clad herself in a rich mantle that reached even to the ground, and was bordered and lined with costly furs.

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**Who acts:** fair lady, rich mantle · **What happens:** rise, clad, reach, border, line · **To what, where:** lady, rich mantle

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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 (fair lady, rich mantle), 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:pg66084:6:64
# text = But the fair lady of the castle rose betimes, and clad herself in a rich mantle that reached even to the ground, and was bordered and lined with costly furs.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	fair	fair	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	lady	lady	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	castle	castle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
8	rose	rise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	betimes	betimes	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	clad	clad	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
13	herself	herself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	12	obj	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	rich	rich	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	mantle	mantle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
18	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	19	nsubj	_	_
19	reached	reach	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	acl:relcl	_	_
20	even	even	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
21	to	to	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
26	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	aux:pass	_	_
27	bordered	border	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	conj	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	lined	line	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	27	conj	_	_
30	with	with	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	costly	costly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	furs	fur	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rise** | past | the fair lady of the castle |  |  |  |  | betimes *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **clad** | past | the fair lady of the castle *not said here* | lady |  | a rich mantle |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **reach** | past | a rich mantle |  |  |  |  | to the ground | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **border** | past · passive | the fair lady of the castle *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8 «NP V NP» |
| 5 | **line** | participle | the fair lady of the castle *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with costly furs | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with fur=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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