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The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Maid of the Morning, sentence 15

His face grew red with confusion, his lips trembled with vexation; for, right before his eyes, he saw one whom he by no means wished to see.

Who acts: face, Wainamoinen, no · What happens: grow, tremble, see, mean, wish · To what, where: lips, one · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (face, Wainamoinen, no), 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

nmod:possnsubjxcompcaseoblpunctnmod:possconjaclcaseoblpunctcasepunctadvmodcasenmod:possoblpunctnsubjconjobjnmodnsubjmarknsubjadvclccompmarkxcomppunctrootHisPRONfaceNOUNgrewVERBredADJwithADPconfusionNOUN,PUNCThisPRONlipsNOUNtrembledVERBwithADPvexationNOUN;PUNCTforADP,PUNCTrightADVbeforeADPhisPRONeyesNOUN,PUNCThePRONsawVERBoneNUMwhomPRONhePRONbySCONJnoDETmeansVERBwishedVERBtoPARTseeVERB.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1HishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs2 facenmod:poss
2facefaceNOUNNumber=Sing3 grewnsubj
3grewgrowVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
4redredADJDegree=Pos3 grewxcomp
5withwithADP_6 confusioncase
6confusionconfusionNOUNNumber=Sing3 grewobl
7,,PUNCT_9 lipspunct
8hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs9 lipsnmod:poss
9lipslipNOUNNumber=Plur6 confusionconj
10trembledtrembleVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass9 lipsacl
11withwithADP_12 vexationcase
12vexationvexationNOUNNumber=Sing10 trembledobl
13;;PUNCT_19 eyespunct
14forforADP_19 eyescase
15,,PUNCT_19 eyespunct
16rightrightADV_19 eyesadvmod
17beforebeforeADP_19 eyescase
18hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs19 eyesnmod:poss
19eyeseyeNOUNNumber=Plur3 grewobl
20,,PUNCT_22 sawpunct
21hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs22 sawnsubj
22sawseeVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin3 grewconj
23oneoneNUMNumForm=Word NumType=Card22 sawobj
24whomwhomPRONPronType=Rel23 onenmod
25hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs24 whomnsubj
26bybySCONJ_28 meansmark
27nonoDETPronType=Neg28 meansnsubj
28meansmeanVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin22 sawadvcl
29wishedwishVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass28 meansccomp
30totoPART_31 seemark
31seeseeVERBVerbForm=Inf29 wishedxcomp
32..PUNCT_3 grewpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1growpastWainamoinen's facewith confusion and Wainamoinen's lips; for Wainamoinen's eyes; red propertyvn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2trembleparticipleWainamoinen's lips not said herewith vexationvn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3seepastWainamoinenonevn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer one=Stimulus
4meanpresentnovn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5wishparticiplevn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
6see not said to happento-infinitivevn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: 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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