The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Land of Tuonela, sentence 53
The dwarfish maiden could scarce contain herself for anger.
Who acts: dwarfish maiden · What happens: scarce, contain · To what, where: maiden
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 (dwarfish 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 | 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 | 5 scarce | nsubj |
| 4 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 scarce | aux |
| 5 | scarce | scarce | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | contain | contain | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 scarce | xcomp |
| 7 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 6 contain | obj |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 anger | case |
| 9 | anger | anger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 contain | obl |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 scarce | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | scarce | could | the dwarfish maiden | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | contain | infinitive | the dwarfish maiden not said here | maiden | for anger | vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot herself=Theme |
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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