The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Hag of the Rock, sentence 47
From beneath rocks and from crevices in the earth snakes peeped out, licking with fiery tongues.
Who acts: beneath rocks · What happens: peep out, lick · To what, where: earth snakes, beneath rocks
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 (beneath rocks), 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 | From | from | ADP | _ | 3 rocks | case |
| 2 | beneath | beneath | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 rocks | amod |
| 3 | rocks | rock | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 crevices | cc |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 6 crevices | case |
| 6 | crevices | crevice | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 rocks | conj |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 snakes | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 snakes | det |
| 9 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 snakes | compound |
| 10 | snakes | snake | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 crevices | nmod |
| 11 | peeped | peep | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 snakes | acl |
| 12 | out | out | ADP | _ | 11 peeped | compound:prt |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 licking | punct |
| 14 | licking | lick | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 rocks | acl |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 tongues | case |
| 16 | fiery | fiery | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 tongues | amod |
| 17 | tongues | tongue | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 licking | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 rocks | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | peep out | participle | the earth snakes not said here | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | lick | gerund | beneath rocks and crevices in the earth snakes not said here | with fiery tongues | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with tongue=Instrument |
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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