The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Forging of the Sampo, sentence 93
“Never have I offered to give you a prize;” and her gaunt form and gruesome features seemed truly terrible in their ugliness.
Who acts: Mistress, gaunt form, reward · What happens: offer, give, seem, form · To what, where: prize, you
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 (Mistress, gaunt form, reward), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 offered | punct |
| 2 | Never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 3 have | advmod |
| 3 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 offered | aux |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 offered | nsubj |
| 5 | offered | offer | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 give | mark |
| 7 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 offered | xcomp |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 give | iobj |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 prize | det |
| 10 | prize | prize | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 give | obj |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 5 offered | punct |
| 12 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 offered | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 seemed | cc |
| 14 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 form | nmod:poss |
| 15 | gaunt | gaunt | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 form | amod |
| 16 | form | form | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 seemed | nsubj |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 features | cc |
| 18 | gruesome | gruesome | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 features | amod |
| 19 | features | feature | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 form | conj |
| 20 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 offered | conj |
| 21 | truly | truly | ADV | _ | 22 terrible | advmod |
| 22 | terrible | terrible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 seemed | xcomp |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 ugliness | case |
| 24 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 ugliness | nmod:poss |
| 25 | ugliness | ugliness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 terrible | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 offered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | offer in a quote | present · perfect | the Mistress = mistress | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | give not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive | the Mistress = mistress not said here | a prize | you | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient prize=Theme | |||
| 3 | seem | past | reward's gaunt form and gruesome features | terrible property | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | form | reward | nom form «communication transitive»: poss=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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