The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Land of Tuonela, sentence 104
The dwarfish maiden hesitated, standing beside her boat.
What happens: hesitate, stand · To what, where: dwarfish maiden, boat
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Land of Tuonela. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 maiden | det |
| 2 | dwarfish | dwarfish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 maiden | amod |
| 3 | maiden | maiden | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | hesitated | hesitate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 maiden | acl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 standing | punct |
| 6 | standing | stand | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 hesitated | advcl |
| 7 | beside | beside | ADP | _ | 9 boat | case |
| 8 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 boat | nmod:poss |
| 9 | boat | boat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 standing | obl |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 maiden | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hesitate | participle | the dwarfish maiden not said here | vn linger-53.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | stand | gerund | maiden's boat | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent beside boat=Location |
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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