The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Forging of the Sampo, sentence 100

The features of the unlovely Mistress softened, they lost somewhat of their grimness as she answered: “Willingly would I fulfil it, prince of wizards and of smiths; but I cannot.

Who acts: features, mouth · What happens: soften, lose, answer, fulfil, feature · To what, where: grimness, unlovely Mistress · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Forging of the Sampo. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (features, mouth), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 features	det
2	features	feature	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 softened	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	6 Mistress	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Mistress	det
5	unlovely	unlovely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 Mistress	amod
6	Mistress	mistress	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 features	nmod
7	softened	soften	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 lost	punct
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 lost	nsubj
10	lost	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 softened	conj
11	somewhat	somewhat	ADV	_	14 grimness	advmod
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 grimness	case
13	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 grimness	nmod:poss
14	grimness	grimness	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 lost	obj
15	as	as	SCONJ	_	17 answered	mark
16	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 answered	nsubj
17	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 lost	advcl
18	:	:	PUNCT	_	23 fulfil	punct
19	“	"	PUNCT	_	23 fulfil	punct
20	Willingly	willingly	ADV	_	23 fulfil	advmod
21	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 fulfil	aux
22	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 fulfil	nsubj
23	fulfil	fulfil	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 answered	ccomp
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 fulfil	obj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 prince	punct
26	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 fulfil	obl
27	of	of	ADP	_	28 wizards	case
28	wizards	wizard	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 prince	nmod
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 smiths	cc
30	of	of	ADP	_	31 smiths	case
31	smiths	smith	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 wizards	conj
32	;	;	PUNCT	_	35 can	punct
33	but	but	CCONJ	_	35 can	cc
34	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	35 can	nsubj
35	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 softened	conj
36	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	35 can	advmod
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 softened	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	soften	past	the features of the unlovely Mistress			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	lose	past	features = feature	features's grimness		vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grimness=Eventuality
3	answer speech: assert	past	mouth			tree rules
4	fulfil in a quote	would	mouth	grimness	prince of wizards and smiths obl; willingly property	tree rules
5	feature			the unlovely Mistress		nom feature «cognition transitive»: of=patient

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 Forging of the Sampo, sentence 100