The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Launching, sentence 32

She looked so beautiful, so grand, that the Minstrel clapped his hands and shouted for excess of joy, and the songs and words of the mighty Wipunen fell faster and louder from his lips.

Who acts: mast, Minstrel, songs · What happens: look, clap, shout, fall, word · To what, where: hands, lips, mighty Wipunen

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 (mast, Minstrel, songs), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 looked	nsubj
2	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	so	so	ADV	_	4 beautiful	advmod
4	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 looked	xcomp
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 grand	punct
6	so	so	ADV	_	7 grand	advmod
7	grand	grand	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 looked	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 clapped	punct
9	that	that	SCONJ	_	12 clapped	mark
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Minstrel	det
11	Minstrel	Minstrel	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 clapped	nsubj
12	clapped	clap	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 looked	parataxis
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 hands	nmod:poss
14	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 clapped	obj
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 shouted	cc
16	shouted	shout	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 clapped	conj
17	for	for	ADP	_	18 excess	case
18	excess	excess	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 shouted	obl
19	of	of	ADP	_	20 joy	case
20	joy	joy	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 excess	nmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 fell	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 fell	cc
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 songs	det
24	songs	song	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 fell	nsubj
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 words	cc
26	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 songs	conj
27	of	of	ADP	_	30 Wipunen	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 Wipunen	det
29	mighty	mighty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 Wipunen	amod
30	Wipunen	Wipunen	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 words	nmod
31	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 looked	conj
32	faster	fast	ADV	Degree=Cmp	31 fell	advmod
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 louder	cc
34	louder	loud	ADV	Degree=Cmp	32 faster	conj
35	from	from	ADP	_	37 lips	case
36	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	37 lips	nmod:poss
37	lips	lip	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 fell	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 looked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	look	past	mast			beautiful property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
2	clap	past	the Minstrel	Minstrel's hands			vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location hand=Theme
3	shout speech: express	past	the Minstrel not said here			for excess of joy	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient S_INF»: agent=Agent for excess=Recipient
4	fall	past	the songs and words of the mighty Wipunen		Minstrel's lips	fast property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from lip=Initial_Location
5	word			the mighty Wipunen			nom word «communication transitive»: of=patient

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 Launching, sentence 32

The tree

Pragmatics

The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Launching, sentence 32