The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Hag of the Rock, sentence 66

The old net weaver, the three-fingered wizard, heard him and came swimming out into the sluggish stream; with his gaunt and hideous fingers he seized one net after another and tore the meshes apart; he made a way between the wires through which the Minstrel might squeeze his by no means slender body.

Who acts: old net weaver, wizard, Minstrel, no · What happens: finger, hear, come, swim out, seize, tore · To what, where: wizard, sluggish stream, one net, meshes, way, wires

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 net weaver, wizard, Minstrel, no), 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	4 weaver	det
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 weaver	amod
3	net	net	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 weaver	compound
4	weaver	weaver	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 heard	nsubj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 wizard	punct
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 wizard	det
7	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 fingered	nummod
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 three	punct
9	fingered	finger	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 wizard	amod
10	wizard	wizard	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 weaver	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 weaver	punct
12	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 heard	obj
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 came	cc
15	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 heard	conj
16	swimming	swim	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	15 came	xcomp
17	out	out	ADP	_	16 swimming	compound:prt
18	into	into	ADP	_	21 stream	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 stream	det
20	sluggish	sluggish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 stream	amod
21	stream	stream	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 swimming	obl
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	30 seized	punct
23	with	with	ADP	_	28 fingers	case
24	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 fingers	nmod:poss
25	gaunt	gaunt	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 fingers	amod
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 hideous	cc
27	hideous	hideous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 gaunt	conj
28	fingers	finger	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 seized	obl
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 seized	nsubj
30	seized	seize	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 heard	parataxis
31	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	32 net	nummod
32	net	net	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 seized	obj
33	after	after	ADP	_	34 another	case
34	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	30 seized	obl
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 tore	cc
36	tore	tore	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 seized	conj
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 meshes	det
38	meshes	mesh	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 tore	obj
39	apart	apart	ADV	_	36 tore	advmod
40	;	;	PUNCT	_	42 made	punct
41	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 made	nsubj
42	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 heard	conj
43	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	44 way	det
44	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 made	obj
45	between	between	ADP	_	47 wires	case
46	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	47 wires	det
47	wires	wire	NOUN	Number=Plur	44 way	nmod
48	through	through	ADP	_	49 which	case
49	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	53 squeeze	obl
50	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	51 Minstrel	det
51	Minstrel	Minstrel	PROPN	Number=Sing	53 squeeze	nsubj
52	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	53 squeeze	aux
53	squeeze	squeeze	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	47 wires	acl:relcl
54	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	53 squeeze	obj
55	by	by	SCONJ	_	57 means	mark
56	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	57 means	nsubj
57	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	53 squeeze	advcl
58	slender	slender	ADJ	Degree=Pos	59 body	amod
59	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	57 means	obj
60	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 heard	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	finger	participle					three nummod	tree rules
2	hear	past	the old net weaver and the fingered wizard	wizard				vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus
3	come	past	the old net weaver and the fingered wizard not said here					tree rules
4	swim out	gerund	the old net weaver and the fingered wizard not said here		the sluggish stream			vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into stream=Destination
5	seize	past	wizard	one net		after another	with wizard's gaunt fingers	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent net=Theme
6	tore	past	wizard not said here	the meshes			apart property	tree rules
7	make	past	wizard	a way			between the wires	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Product
8	squeeze	might	the Minstrel	wizard	the wires			vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent his=Theme through which=Trajectory
9	mean	present	no	slender body				vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent body=Topic

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 66