The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Caldron, sentence 95

As the flames subsided and the furnace began to grow cool, behold a ship rose from the mixture—a ship complete with pointed beak and oars and sails, all ready to be launched upon the sea.

Who acts: flames, furnace · What happens: subside, begin, grow, launch · To what, where: ship rose, sea

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 (flames, furnace), 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	As	as	SCONJ	_	4 subsided	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 flames	det
3	flames	flame	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 subsided	nsubj
4	subsided	subside	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 began	cc
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 furnace	det
7	furnace	furnace	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 began	nsubj
8	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 subsided	conj
9	to	to	PART	_	10 grow	mark
10	grow	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 began	xcomp
11	cool	cool	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 grow	xcomp
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 rose	punct
13	behold	behold	INTJ	_	16 rose	discourse
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 rose	det
15	ship	ship	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 rose	compound
16	rose	rose	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 began	obl
17	from	from	ADP	_	19 mixture	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 mixture	det
19	mixture	mixture	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 rose	nmod
20	—	-	PUNCT	_	22 ship	punct
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 ship	det
22	ship	ship	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 rose	conj
23	complete	complete	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 ship	amod
24	with	with	ADP	_	26 beak	case
25	pointed	pointed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 beak	amod
26	beak	beak	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 complete	obl
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 oars	cc
28	oars	oar	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 beak	conj
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 sails	cc
30	sails	sail	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 oars	conj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 ready	punct
32	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	33 ready	advmod
33	ready	ready	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 ship	conj
34	to	to	PART	_	36 launched	mark
35	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	36 launched	aux:pass
36	launched	launch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	33 ready	xcomp
37	upon	upon	ADP	_	39 sea	case
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 sea	det
39	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 launched	obl
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 subsided	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	subside	past	the flames				vn entity_specific_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	begin	past	the furnace	a ship rose from the mixture and a ship			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	grow	to-infinitive	the furnace not said here			cool property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	launch	to-infinitive · passive	the furnace not said here		the sea		vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: upon sea=Destination

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 95