The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Maid of the Morning, sentence 30

“Indeed, your face should make the surliest of men happy,” answered the gallant Minstrel; “but, tell me, what errand has brought you hither?

Who acts: face, gallant Minstrel · What happens: make, answer, tell, bring · To what, where: gallant Minstrel, you · 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, gallant Minstrel), 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	7 make	punct
2	Indeed	indeed	ADV	_	7 make	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Indeed	punct
4	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 face	nmod:poss
5	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 make	nsubj
6	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 make	aux
7	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 answered	ccomp
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 surliest	det
9	surliest	surly	ADJ	Degree=Sup	7 make	xcomp
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 men	case
11	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 surliest	nmod
12	happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 surliest	xcomp
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 make	punct
14	”	"	PUNCT	_	7 make	punct
15	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 Minstrel	det
17	gallant	gallant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 Minstrel	amod
18	Minstrel	Minstrel	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 answered	obj
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 tell	punct
20	“	"	PUNCT	_	23 tell	punct
21	but	but	CCONJ	_	23 tell	cc
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 but	punct
23	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 answered	conj
24	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 tell	iobj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 brought	punct
26	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	29 brought	nsubj:pass
27	errand	errand	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 brought	nsubj:pass
28	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 brought	aux
29	brought	bring	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 tell	conj
30	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	29 brought	obj
31	hither	hither	ADV	_	29 brought	advmod
32	?	?	PUNCT	_	15 answered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	other	roles by
1	make in a quote	should	your face		indeed, surly property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset
2	answer speech: ask	past	the gallant Minstrel			tree rules
3	tell speech: assert in a quote	infinitive	the gallant Minstrel not said here	the gallant Minstrel = minstrel		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient
4	bring in a quote	present · perfect · passive		you	what nsubj:pass; errand nsubj:pass; hither property	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme you=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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🌲 The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Maid of the Morning, sentence 30

The tree

Pragmatics

The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Maid of the Morning, sentence 30