The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Forging of the Sampo, sentence 46

The fire in the furnace was dead; the caldron was empty and void; the bellows was silent; the anvil of granite was idle.

Who acts: fire, caldron, bellows, anvil · What happens: be

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 (fire, caldron, bellows, anvil), 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 fire	det
2	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 dead	nsubj
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 furnace	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 furnace	det
5	furnace	furnace	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 fire	nmod
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 dead	cop
7	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 empty	punct
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 caldron	det
10	caldron	caldron	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 empty	nsubj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 empty	cop
12	empty	empty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 dead	conj
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 void	cc
14	void	void	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 empty	conj
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 silent	punct
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 bellows	det
17	bellows	bellow	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 silent	nsubj
18	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 silent	cop
19	silent	silent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 dead	conj
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 idle	punct
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 anvil	det
22	anvil	anvil	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 idle	nsubj
23	of	of	ADP	_	24 granite	case
24	granite	granite	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 anvil	nmod
25	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 idle	cop
26	idle	idle	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 dead	conj
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 dead	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	is	past	the fire in the furnace	dead property	tree rules
2	is	past	the caldron	empty property	tree rules
3	be		the caldron not said here		tree rules
4	is	past	the bellows	silent property	tree rules
5	is	past	the anvil of granite	idle property	tree rules

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 Forging of the Sampo, sentence 46

The tree

Pragmatics

The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Forging of the Sampo, sentence 46