The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Hag of the Rock, sentence 48
From every tree hideous creatures looked down and grinned at him.
Who acts: hideous creatures · What happens: look down, grin
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 (hideous creatures), 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 tree | case |
| 2 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 tree | det |
| 3 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 looked | obl |
| 4 | hideous | hideous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 creatures | amod |
| 5 | creatures | creature | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 looked | nsubj |
| 6 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | down | down | ADP | _ | 6 looked | compound:prt |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 grinned | cc |
| 9 | grinned | grin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 looked | conj |
| 10 | at | at | ADP | _ | 11 him | case |
| 11 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 grinned | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look down | past | hideous creatures | from every tree | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent from tree=Theme | ||||
| 2 | grin | past | hideous creatures not said here | at heart | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=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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