The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Land of Tuonela, sentence 135
The queen listened, and her ashy-pale face grew paler still and an unpitying smile overspread her joyless countenance.
Who acts: queen, ashy pale face, unpitying smile · What happens: listen, grow, overspread · To what, where: joyless countenance
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: who acts (queen, ashy pale face, unpitying smile), 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 queen | det |
| 2 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 listened | nsubj |
| 3 | listened | listen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 grew | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 grew | cc |
| 6 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 face | nmod:poss |
| 7 | ashy | ashy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 face | amod |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 ashy | punct |
| 9 | pale | pale | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 face | amod |
| 10 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 grew | nsubj |
| 11 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 listened | parataxis |
| 12 | paler | pale | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 11 grew | xcomp |
| 13 | still | still | ADV | _ | 11 grew | advmod |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 overspread | cc |
| 15 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 smile | det |
| 16 | unpitying | unpitying | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 smile | amod |
| 17 | smile | smile | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 overspread | nsubj |
| 18 | overspread | overspread | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 grew | conj |
| 19 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 countenance | nmod:poss |
| 20 | joyless | joyless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 countenance | amod |
| 21 | countenance | countenance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 overspread | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 listened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | listen | past | the queen | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | grow | past | queen's ashy pale face | still | pale property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 3 | overspread | past | a unpitying smile | queen's joyless countenance | 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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