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title: Then he smote Gringalet with his golden spurs, and the steed pranced… — Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-Englis… · tree and pragmatics
description: Then he smote Gringalet with his golden spurs, and the steed pranced on the stones and would stand no longer. Who acts: squire, steed. A sentence of «Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose» by Jessie L. Weston, Opening, part 7, with its dependency 
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# Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 7, sentence 61

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Then he smote Gringalet with his golden spurs, and the steed pranced on the stones and would stand no longer.

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**Who acts:** squire, steed · **What happens:** smite, prance, stand, spur · **To what, where:** Gringalet, stones

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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 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (squire, steed), 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:pg66084:7:61
# text = Then he smote Gringalet with his golden spurs, and the steed pranced on the stones and would stand no longer.
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	smote	smite	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	Gringalet	Gringalet	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
7	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	spurs	spur	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	steed	steed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
13	pranced	prance	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	parataxis	_	_
14	on	on	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	stones	stone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
18	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	stand	stand	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	conj	_	_
20	no	no	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	longer	long	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	19	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
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| 1 | **smite** | past | squire | Gringalet |  |  | then | with squire's golden spurs | vn hit-18.1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent gringalet=Patient with spur=Instrument |
| 2 | **prance** | participle | the steed |  |  | the stones |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on stone=Trajectory |
| 3 | **stand** | would | the steed *not said here* |  |  |  |  | long *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **spur** |  | squire |  |  |  |  |  | nom spur «communication transitive»: 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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