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title: On her head she wore no golden circlet, but a network of precious st… — Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-Englis… · tree and pragmatics
description: On her head she wore no golden circlet, but a network of precious stones, that gleamed and shone through her tresses in clusters of twenty together. Who acts: lady, network. A sentence of «Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose» by Jessie L. Weston
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# Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 6, sentence 65

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On her head she wore no golden circlet, but a network of precious stones, that gleamed and shone through her tresses in clusters of twenty together.

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**Who acts:** lady, network · **What happens:** wear, gleam, shine · **To what, where:** golden circlet, head, tresses

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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 (lady, network), 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:pg66084:6:65
# text = On her head she wore no golden circlet, but a network of precious stones, that gleamed and shone through her tresses in clusters of twenty together.
1	On	on	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
4	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	wore	wear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	8	det	_	_
7	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	circlet	circlet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
10	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	network	network	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	precious	precious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	stones	stone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	18	nsubj	_	_
18	gleamed	gleam	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	shone	shine	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	conj	_	_
21	through	through	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	tresses	tress	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obl	_	_
24	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	clusters	cluster	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nmod	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	twenty	twenty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	25	appos	_	_
28	together	together	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wear** | past | lady | no golden circlet |  | lady's head |  |  | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent circlet=Theme |
| 2 | **gleam** | past | a network of precious stones |  |  |  |  | that *nsubj* | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **shine** | past | a network of precious stones *not said here* |  |  | lady's tresses in clusters |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through tress=Location |

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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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