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title: Page 22.—_First a rich carpet was stretched on the floor. — Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-Englis… · tree and pragmatics
description: Page 22.—_First a rich carpet was stretched on the floor. Who acts: Page. A sentence of «Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose» by Jessie L. Weston, Opening, part 9, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 9, sentence 37

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Page 22.—\_First a rich carpet was stretched on the floor.

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**Who acts:** Page · **What happens:** stretch · **To what, where:** rich carpet, floor, Page

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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 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Page), 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:pg66084:9:37
# text = Page 22.—_First a rich carpet was stretched on the floor.
1	Page	page	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	22	22	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	1	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	First	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	11	advmod	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	rich	rich	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	carpet	carpet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj:pass	_	_
10	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux:pass	_	_
11	stretched	stretch	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	1	acl:relcl	_	_
12	on	on	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	floor	floor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stretch** | past · passive | Page *not said here* | a rich carpet |  | the floor |  | first *property* | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient |

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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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