The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Maid of the Morning, sentence 103
When she reached the dry sand she turned and looked back at the puzzled hero and his little ship.
Who acts: maiden · What happens: reach, turn, look back, puzzle · To what, where: dry sand
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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 3 reached | mark |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 reached | nsubj |
| 3 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 turned | advcl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 sand | det |
| 5 | dry | dry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 sand | amod |
| 6 | sand | sand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 reached | obj |
| 7 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 turned | nsubj |
| 8 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 looked | cc |
| 10 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 turned | conj |
| 11 | back | back | ADV | _ | 10 looked | advmod |
| 12 | at | at | ADP | _ | 15 hero | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 hero | det |
| 14 | puzzled | puzzle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 hero | amod |
| 15 | hero | hero | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 looked | obl |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 ship | cc |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 ship | nmod:poss |
| 18 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 ship | amod |
| 19 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 hero | conj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 turned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reach | past | maiden | the dry sand | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent sand=Theme | ||||
| 2 | turn | past | maiden | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | look back | past | maiden not said here | at the puzzled hero and shore's little ship | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at hero=Theme | ||||
| 4 | puzzle | participle | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=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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