The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Caldron, sentence 32

And now the snow was melting, the grass was green on the hillsides, the reeds were springing up in the marshes, and the birds were twittering under the eaves.

Who acts: snow, grass, reeds, birds · What happens: melt, be, spring up, twitter · To what, where: hillsides, marshes, eaves

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 (snow, grass, reeds, birds), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	6 melting	cc
2	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 melting	advmod
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 snow	det
4	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 melting	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 melting	aux
6	melting	melt	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 green	punct
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 grass	det
9	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 green	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 green	cop
11	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 melting	conj
12	on	on	ADP	_	14 hillsides	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 hillsides	det
14	hillsides	hillside	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 green	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 springing	punct
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 reeds	det
17	reeds	reed	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 springing	nsubj
18	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 springing	aux
19	springing	spring	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 hillsides	acl
20	up	up	ADP	_	19 springing	compound:prt
21	in	in	ADP	_	23 marshes	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 marshes	det
23	marshes	marsh	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 springing	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 twittering	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 twittering	cc
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 birds	det
27	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 twittering	nsubj
28	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 twittering	aux
29	twittering	twitter	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 melting	advcl
30	under	under	ADP	_	32 eaves	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 eaves	det
32	eaves	eave	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 twittering	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 melting	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	melt	past · progressive	the snow			now		vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	is	past	the grass		the hillsides		green property	tree rules
3	spring up	past · progressive	the reeds	the hillsides not said here	the marshes			vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location hillside=Theme
4	twitter	past · progressive	the birds		the eaves			vn animal_sounds-38 «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 Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Caldron, sentence 32

The tree

Pragmatics

The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Caldron, sentence 32