The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Land of Tuonela, sentence 32
Very small she was, but well-shaped and comely.
What happens: be, shape
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 | Very | very | ADV | _ | 2 small | advmod |
| 2 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 was | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 small | cop |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 shaped | punct |
| 6 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 9 shaped | cc |
| 7 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 9 shaped | advmod |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 well | punct |
| 9 | shaped | shape | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 small | parataxis |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 comely | cc |
| 11 | comely | comely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 shaped | conj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 small | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | small property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | shape | participle | well property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
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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