The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Launching, sentence 39
Then, gracefully and with dignity, like a princess on her wedding day, the little ship glided across the shelving beach and in another moment was floating lightly, smoothly, nobly upon the water.
Who acts: princess · What happens: glide, float · To what, where: little ship, shelving beach, water
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 (princess), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 29 floating | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 gracefully | punct |
| 3 | gracefully | gracefully | ADV | _ | 29 floating | advmod |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 floating | cc |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 dignity | case |
| 6 | dignity | dignity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 floating | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 princess | punct |
| 8 | like | like | ADP | _ | 10 princess | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 princess | det |
| 10 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 floating | nsubj |
| 11 | on | on | ADP | _ | 14 day | case |
| 12 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 day | nmod:poss |
| 13 | wedding | wedding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 day | compound |
| 14 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 princess | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 ship | punct |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 ship | det |
| 17 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 ship | amod |
| 18 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 princess | conj |
| 19 | glided | glide | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 ship | acl |
| 20 | across | across | ADP | _ | 23 beach | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 beach | det |
| 22 | shelving | shelving | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 beach | compound |
| 23 | beach | beach | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 glided | obl |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 moment | cc |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 moment | case |
| 26 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 27 moment | det |
| 27 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 beach | conj |
| 28 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 floating | aux |
| 29 | floating | float | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 30 | lightly | lightly | ADV | _ | 29 floating | advmod |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 smoothly | punct |
| 32 | smoothly | smoothly | ADV | _ | 29 floating | advmod |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 water | punct |
| 34 | nobly | nobly | ADV | _ | 37 water | advmod |
| 35 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 37 water | case |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 water | det |
| 37 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 floating | obl |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 29 floating | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | glide | participle | the little ship not said here | the shelving beach and another moment | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme across beach=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | float | past · progressive | a princess on sound's wedding day and the little ship | the water | then | with dignity; gracefully, lightly, smoothly property | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon water=Trajectory |
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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