The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Hag of the Rock, sentence 29

As fast as the Hag of the Rock spun threads of iron, wires of copper, or coils of twisted metal, he would gather them up and intertwine them together, making a fabric both pliable and strong.

Who acts: Hag · What happens: spin, gather up, intertwine, make · To what, where: threads, coils, fabric

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 (Hag), 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	As	as	ADV	_	2 fast	advmod
2	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	26 gather	advmod
3	as	as	SCONJ	_	9 spun	mark
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Hag	det
5	Hag	Hag	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 spun	nsubj
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 Rock	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Rock	det
8	Rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 Hag	nmod
9	spun	spin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 gather	advcl
10	threads	thread	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 spun	obj
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 iron	case
12	iron	iron	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 threads	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 wires	punct
14	wires	wire	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 iron	conj
15	of	of	ADP	_	16 copper	case
16	copper	copper	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 wires	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 coils	punct
18	or	or	CCONJ	_	19 coils	cc
19	coils	coil	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 threads	conj
20	of	of	ADP	_	22 metal	case
21	twisted	twisted	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 metal	amod
22	metal	metal	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 coils	nmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 spun	punct
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 gather	nsubj
25	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 gather	aux
26	gather	gather	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
27	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 gather	obj
28	up	up	ADP	_	26 gather	compound:prt
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 intertwine	cc
30	intertwine	intertwine	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 gather	conj
31	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 intertwine	obj
32	together	together	ADV	_	30 intertwine	advmod
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 making	punct
34	making	make	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	30 intertwine	advcl
35	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 fabric	det
36	fabric	fabric	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 making	obj
37	both	both	CCONJ	_	38 pliable	cc:preconj
38	pliable	pliable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 making	xcomp
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 strong	cc
40	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 pliable	conj
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	26 gather	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	spin	past	the Hag of the Rock	threads of iron and wires of copper or coils of twisted metal		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent thread=Theme
2	gather up	would	Hag	coils = coil	fast property	vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
3	intertwine	infinitive	Hag not said here	coils = coil	together property	vn amalgamate-22.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient
4	make	gerund	Hag not said here	a fabric	pliable property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset fabric=Product

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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The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Hag of the Rock, sentence 29