The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Caldron, sentence 109

From the caldron a mist was slowly rising, hot, pungent, fog-like; within it, the magic mixture could be heard bubbling, seething, hissing.

Who acts: mist · What happens: rise, hear, seethe, hiss · To what, where: caldron, magic mixture

This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Caldron. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mist), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	From	from	ADP	_	3 caldron	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 caldron	det
3	caldron	caldron	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 heard	obl
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 mist	det
5	mist	mist	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 rising	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 rising	aux
7	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	8 rising	advmod
8	rising	rise	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 caldron	acl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 hot	punct
10	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 rising	parataxis
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 pungent	punct
12	pungent	pungent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 hot	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 like	punct
14	fog	fog	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 like	compound
15	-	-	PUNCT	_	14 fog	punct
16	like	like	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 hot	conj
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	3 caldron	punct
18	within	within	ADP	_	19 it	case
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 caldron	nmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 caldron	punct
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 mixture	det
22	magic	magic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 mixture	amod
23	mixture	mixture	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 heard	nsubj:pass
24	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 heard	aux
25	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	26 heard	aux:pass
26	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
27	bubbling	bubbling	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 heard	obj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 seething	punct
29	seething	seethe	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	26 heard	advcl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 hissing	punct
31	hissing	hiss	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	29 seething	conj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	26 heard	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	rise	past · progressive	a mist	the caldron within mist not said here		slowly property	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location caldron=Theme
2	hear	could · passive		the magic mixture	the caldron within mist	bubbling obj	tree rules
3	seethe	gerund					vn bulge-47.5.3 «NP V»: agent=Location
4	hiss	gerund					vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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.

Text: «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, Project Gutenberg book 66819 (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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The tree

Pragmatics

The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Caldron, sentence 109