The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Maid of the Morning, sentence 102
The maiden retreated to the shore, splashing the water angrily at every step.
Who acts: maiden · What happens: retreat, splash · To what, where: shore, water
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Maid of the Morning. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (maiden), 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 maiden | det |
| 2 | maiden | maiden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 retreated | nsubj |
| 3 | retreated | retreat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 shore | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 shore | det |
| 6 | shore | shore | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 retreated | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 splashing | punct |
| 8 | splashing | splash | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 retreated | advcl |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 water | det |
| 10 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 splashing | obj |
| 11 | angrily | angrily | ADV | _ | 8 splashing | advmod |
| 12 | at | at | ADP | _ | 14 step | case |
| 13 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 14 step | det |
| 14 | step | step | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 splashing | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 retreated | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | retreat | past | the maiden | the shore | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to shore=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | splash | gerund | the maiden not said here | the water | at every step; angrily property | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination-Conative»: agent=Agent water=Theme at step=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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