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The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Caldron, sentence 12

They drew up closer to the fire, they threw fresh logs into the flames, they turned their faces towards him and asked a thousand curious questions.

Who acts: listeners · What happens: draw up, throw, turn, ask · To what, where: fresh logs, flames, faces, thousand curious questions

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 (listeners), 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

nsubjcompound:prtadvmodcasedetoblpunctnsubjconjamodobjcasedetoblpunctnsubjconjnmod:possobjcaseoblccconjdetnummodamodobjpunctrootTheyPRONdrewVERBupADPcloserADVtoADPtheDETfireNOUN,PUNCTtheyPRONthrewVERBfreshADJlogsNOUNintoADPtheDETflamesNOUN,PUNCTtheyPRONturnedVERBtheirPRONfacesNOUNtowardsADPhimPRONandCCONJaskedVERBaDETthousandNUMcuriousADJquestionsNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1TheytheyPRONCase=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs2 drewnsubj
2drewdrawVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
3upupADP_2 drewcompound:prt
4closercloseADVDegree=Cmp2 drewadvmod
5totoADP_7 firecase
6thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art7 firedet
7firefireNOUNNumber=Sing4 closerobl
8,,PUNCT_10 threwpunct
9theytheyPRONCase=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs10 threwnsubj
10threwthrowVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin2 drewconj
11freshfreshADJDegree=Pos12 logsamod
12logslogNOUNNumber=Plur10 threwobj
13intointoADP_15 flamescase
14thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art15 flamesdet
15flamesflameNOUNNumber=Plur10 threwobl
16,,PUNCT_18 turnedpunct
17theytheyPRONCase=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs18 turnednsubj
18turnedturnVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin2 drewconj
19theirtheirPRONCase=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs20 facesnmod:poss
20facesfaceNOUNNumber=Plur18 turnedobj
21towardstowardsADP_22 himcase
22himhePRONCase=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs18 turnedobl
23andandCCONJ_24 askedcc
24askedaskVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin18 turnedconj
25aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art26 thousanddet
26thousandthousandNUMNumForm=Word NumType=Card28 questionsnummod
27curiouscuriousADJDegree=Pos28 questionsamod
28questionsquestionNOUNNumber=Plur24 askedobj
29..PUNCT_2 drewpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1draw uppastlisteners = listenerclose propertyvn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2throwpastlisteners = listenerfresh logsinto the flames resultvn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Causer log=Theme into flame=Result
3turnpastlisteners = listenerlisteners's facestowards thingvn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent face=Theme towards he=Trajectory
4ask speech: askpastlisteners = listener not said herethousand curious questionsvn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent question=Recipient

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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