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title: Then he braced himself to strike, frowning with lips and brow, ’twas… — Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-Englis… · tree and pragmatics
description: Then he braced himself to strike, frowning with lips and brow, ’twas no marvel that he who hoped for no rescue misliked him. Who acts: other, twas. A sentence of «Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose» by Jessie L. Weston, Opening, part 8, with it
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# Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 8, sentence 57

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Then he braced himself to strike, frowning with lips and brow, ’twas no marvel that he who hoped for no rescue misliked him.

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**Who acts:** other, twas · **What happens:** brace, strike, frown, hope, mislik · **To what, where:** other

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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 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (other, twas), 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:pg66084:8:57
# text = Then he braced himself to strike, frowning with lips and brow, ’twas no marvel that he who hoped for no rescue misliked him.
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	braced	brace	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	3	obj	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	strike	strike	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	frowning	frown	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	advcl	_	_
9	with	with	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	lips	lip	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	brow	brow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
14	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	twas	twa	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nsubj	_	_
16	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	17	det	_	_
17	marvel	marvel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
18	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
19	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
20	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	21	nsubj	_	_
21	hoped	hope	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	acl	_	_
22	for	for	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	24	det	_	_
24	rescue	rescue	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
25	misliked	mislik	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
26	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **brace** | past | other | other |  |  | then |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **strike** | to-infinitive | other *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **frown** | gerund | other *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with lips and brow | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **hope** | past | other |  |  |  |  | for no rescue; no marvel *nsubj* | vn long-32.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Pivot for rescue=Theme |
| 5 | **mislik** | past | twas | other |  |  |  | no marvel *nsubj* | tree rules |

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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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