The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Launching, sentence 51
The fairy vessel glided onward, steadily, proudly, towards its goal in the distant North.
What happens: glide · To what, where: fairy vessel, goal
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: 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 | 3 vessel | det |
| 2 | fairy | fairy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 vessel | amod |
| 3 | vessel | vessel | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | glided | glide | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 vessel | acl |
| 5 | onward | onward | ADV | _ | 4 glided | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 steadily | punct |
| 7 | steadily | steadily | ADV | _ | 4 glided | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 proudly | punct |
| 9 | proudly | proudly | ADV | _ | 7 steadily | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 goal | punct |
| 11 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 13 goal | case |
| 12 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 goal | nmod:poss |
| 13 | goal | goal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 glided | obl |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 North | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 North | det |
| 16 | distant | distant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 North | amod |
| 17 | North | North | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 goal | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 vessel | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | glide | participle | the fairy vessel not said here | vessel's goal in the distant North | onward, steadily property | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme towards goal=Destination |
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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