The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Launching, sentence 10
The Minstrel rose quietly and stole out of the house very cautiously—so cautiously that the dogs who were sleeping by the doorway were not aroused.
Who acts: Minstrel, dogs · What happens: rise, steal, sleep, not arouse · To what, where: house, dogs
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Launching. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Minstrel, dogs), 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 | 2 Minstrel | det |
| 2 | Minstrel | Minstrel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 rose | nsubj |
| 3 | rose | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | quietly | quietly | ADV | _ | 3 rose | advmod |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 stole | cc |
| 6 | stole | steal | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 rose | conj |
| 7 | out | out | ADP | _ | 10 house | case |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 house | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 house | det |
| 10 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 stole | obl |
| 11 | very | very | ADV | _ | 12 cautiously | advmod |
| 12 | cautiously | cautiously | ADV | _ | 6 stole | advmod |
| 13 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 cautiously | punct |
| 14 | so | so | ADV | _ | 15 cautiously | advmod |
| 15 | cautiously | cautiously | ADV | _ | 3 rose | advmod |
| 16 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 27 aroused | mark |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 dogs | det |
| 18 | dogs | dog | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 aroused | nsubj:pass |
| 19 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 sleeping | nsubj |
| 20 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 sleeping | aux |
| 21 | sleeping | sleep | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 18 dogs | acl:relcl |
| 22 | by | by | ADP | _ | 24 doorway | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 doorway | det |
| 24 | doorway | doorway | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 sleeping | obl |
| 25 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 aroused | aux:pass |
| 26 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 27 aroused | advmod |
| 27 | aroused | arouse | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 cautiously | advcl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 rose | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rise | past | the Minstrel | cautiously, quietly property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | steal | past | the Minstrel not said here | the house | cautiously property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme out house=Location | |||
| 3 | sleep | past · progressive | the dogs | by the doorway | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | not arouse | past · passive | the dogs | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer |
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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