The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Hag of the Rock, sentence 11
The old woman paused in her spinning; her fingers twitched uneasily, her thin lips grew thinner still, and her gray eyes shone with phosphorescent light.
Who acts: old woman, fingers, thin lips, gray eyes, woman · What happens: pause, twitch, grow, shine, spin · To what, where: spinning
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 (old woman, fingers, thin lips, gray eyes), 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 woman | det |
| 2 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 woman | amod |
| 3 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 paused | nsubj |
| 4 | paused | pause | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 spinning | case |
| 6 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 spinning | nmod:poss |
| 7 | spinning | spinning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 paused | obl |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 twitched | punct |
| 9 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 fingers | nmod:poss |
| 10 | fingers | finger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 twitched | nsubj |
| 11 | twitched | twitch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 paused | parataxis |
| 12 | uneasily | uneasily | ADV | _ | 11 twitched | advmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 grew | punct |
| 14 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 lips | nmod:poss |
| 15 | thin | thin | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 lips | amod |
| 16 | lips | lip | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 grew | nsubj |
| 17 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 twitched | conj |
| 18 | thinner | thin | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 17 grew | xcomp |
| 19 | still | still | ADV | _ | 17 grew | advmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 shone | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 shone | cc |
| 22 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 23 | gray | gray | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 eyes | compound |
| 24 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 shone | nsubj |
| 25 | shone | shine | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 paused | conj |
| 26 | with | with | ADP | _ | 28 light | case |
| 27 | phosphorescent | phosphorescent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 light | amod |
| 28 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 shone | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 paused | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pause | past | the old woman | woman's spinning | vn linger-53.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in spinning=Location | ||||
| 2 | twitch | past | woman's fingers | uneasily property | vn body_internal_motion-49.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | grow | past | woman's thin lips | still | thin property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 4 | shine | participle | woman's gray eyes | with phosphorescent light | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with light=Theme | ||||
| 5 | spin | woman | nom spinning «act 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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