The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Hag of the Rock, sentence 10
“Yes, yes, I know!” cried the queen impatiently; “but what kind of thread do you spin to-night for that rash, foolhardy man who has come into our kingdom unbidden and before his time?”
Who acts: queen, kind, foolhardy man · What happens: know, cry, spin, come · To what, where: kingdom · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Hag of the Rock. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (queen, kind, foolhardy man), 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 | _ | 10 cried | punct |
| 2 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 7 know | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Yes | punct |
| 4 | yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 7 know | discourse |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 know | punct |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 know | nsubj |
| 7 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 cried | parataxis |
| 8 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 7 know | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 know | punct |
| 10 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 queen | det |
| 12 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 cried | obj |
| 13 | impatiently | impatiently | ADV | _ | 10 cried | advmod |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 10 cried | punct |
| 15 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 kind | punct |
| 16 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 18 kind | cc |
| 17 | what | what | DET | PronType=Int | 18 kind | det |
| 18 | kind | kind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 spin | nsubj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 thread | case |
| 20 | thread | thread | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 kind | nmod |
| 21 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 spin | aux |
| 22 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 23 spin | nsubj |
| 23 | spin | spin | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 cried | conj |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 night | case |
| 25 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 24 to | punct |
| 26 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 spin | obl |
| 27 | for | for | ADP | _ | 29 rash | case |
| 28 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 29 rash | det |
| 29 | rash | rash | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 spin | obl |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 man | punct |
| 31 | foolhardy | foolhardy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 man | amod |
| 32 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 rash | appos |
| 33 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 35 come | nsubj |
| 34 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 35 come | aux |
| 35 | come | come | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 32 man | acl:relcl |
| 36 | into | into | ADP | _ | 38 kingdom | case |
| 37 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 38 kingdom | nmod:poss |
| 38 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 come | obl |
| 39 | unbidden | unbidden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 come | xcomp |
| 40 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 43 time | cc |
| 41 | before | before | ADP | _ | 43 time | case |
| 42 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 43 time | nmod:poss |
| 43 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 rash | conj |
| 44 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 23 spin | punct |
| 45 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know in a quote | present | the queen = queen | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | cry speech: express | past | the queen | impatiently property | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | spin in a quote | present · do-support | what kind of thread | night | for that rash and kind's time; you nsubj | vn create-26.4-1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for rash=Beneficiary | |||
| 4 | come in a quote | present · perfect | foolhardy man | our kingdom | unbidden property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into kingdom=Initial_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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