The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Forging of the Sampo, sentence 7
The South Wind crept softly up to the smithy door, it peeped slyly in, and said merrily:
Who acts: South Wind, fragrance · What happens: creep, peep, say · To what, where: smithy door · 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 (South Wind, fragrance), 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 | 3 Wind | det |
| 2 | South | South | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Wind | compound |
| 3 | Wind | Wind | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 crept | nsubj |
| 4 | crept | creep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | softly | softly | ADV | _ | 4 crept | advmod |
| 6 | up | up | ADP | _ | 10 door | case |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 door | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 door | det |
| 9 | smithy | smithy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 door | compound |
| 10 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 crept | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 peeped | punct |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 peeped | nsubj |
| 13 | peeped | peep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 crept | conj |
| 14 | slyly | slyly | ADV | _ | 13 peeped | advmod |
| 15 | in | in | ADV | _ | 13 peeped | advmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 said | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 said | cc |
| 18 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 crept | parataxis |
| 19 | merrily | merrily | ADV | _ | 18 said | advmod |
| 20 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 4 crept | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | creep | past | the South Wind | the smithy door | softly property | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme up door=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | peep | past | fragrance | slyly property | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | merrily property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
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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