The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Forging of the Sampo, sentence 107
The firelight grew brighter and then suddenly died away, and the room became dark.
Who acts: firelight, room · What happens: grow, die away, become
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 (firelight, room), 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 firelight | det |
| 2 | firelight | firelight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 grew | nsubj |
| 3 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | brighter | bright | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 3 grew | xcomp |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 died | cc |
| 6 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 8 died | advmod |
| 7 | suddenly | suddenly | ADV | _ | 8 died | advmod |
| 8 | died | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 grew | conj |
| 9 | away | away | ADV | _ | 8 died | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 became | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 became | cc |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 room | det |
| 13 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 became | nsubj |
| 14 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 grew | conj |
| 15 | dark | dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 became | xcomp |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 grew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow | past | the firelight | bright property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | die away | past | the firelight not said here | then | away, suddenly property | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||
| 3 | become | past | the room | dark property | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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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