The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Land of Tuonela, sentence 43
“You speak falsely!” cried the dwarfish maiden, with anger in her tones.
Who acts: You, dwarfish maiden, maiden · What happens: speak, cry, intonate · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (You, dwarfish maiden, maiden), 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 | _ | 3 speak | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 speak | nsubj |
| 3 | speak | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | falsely | falsely | ADV | _ | 3 speak | advmod |
| 5 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 speak | punct |
| 6 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 cried | punct |
| 7 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 speak | conj |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 maiden | det |
| 9 | dwarfish | dwarfish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 maiden | amod |
| 10 | maiden | maiden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 cried | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 anger | punct |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 anger | case |
| 13 | anger | anger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 cried | obl |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 tones | case |
| 15 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 tones | nmod:poss |
| 16 | tones | tone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 anger | nmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 speak | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | speak speech: other in a quote | present | You | falsely property | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | cry speech: express | past | the dwarfish maiden | with anger in maiden's tones | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with anger=Theme | ||||
| 3 | intonate | maiden | nom tone «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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