The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Caldron, sentence 75
Forthwith the crossbow leaped from the caldron; it flew out of the furnace; it stood humbly bowing before the wizard Smith.
Who acts: bow · What happens: leap, fly out, stand, bow · To what, where: crossbow, caldron, furnace, wizard Smith
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 (bow), 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 | Forthwith | forthwith | ADP | _ | 3 crossbow | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 crossbow | det |
| 3 | crossbow | crossbow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 flew | obl |
| 4 | leaped | leap | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 crossbow | acl |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 caldron | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 caldron | det |
| 7 | caldron | caldron | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 leaped | obl |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 10 flew | punct |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 flew | nsubj |
| 10 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | out | out | ADP | _ | 14 furnace | case |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 furnace | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 furnace | det |
| 14 | furnace | furnace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 flew | obl |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 stood | punct |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 stood | nsubj |
| 17 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 flew | conj |
| 18 | humbly | humbly | ADV | _ | 17 stood | advmod |
| 19 | bowing | bow | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 stood | advcl |
| 20 | before | before | ADP | _ | 23 Smith | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 Smith | det |
| 22 | wizard | wizard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 Smith | amod |
| 23 | Smith | Smith | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 bowing | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 flew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leap | participle | the crossbow not said here | the caldron | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from caldron=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | fly out | past | bow | the furnace | forthwith the crossbow | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location furnace=Theme | |||
| 3 | stand | past | bow | humbly property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | bow | gerund | bow not said here | the wizard Smith | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before smith=Location |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66819/10/75/