The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Maid of the Morning, sentence 59
The smell of fish filled the vessel and floated thick in the air around it.
Who acts: smell, fish · What happens: fill, float, smell · To what, where: vessel
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 (smell, fish), 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 smell | det |
| 2 | smell | smell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 filled | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 fish | case |
| 4 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 smell | nmod |
| 5 | filled | fill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 vessel | det |
| 7 | vessel | vessel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 filled | obj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 floated | cc |
| 9 | floated | float | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 filled | conj |
| 10 | thick | thick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 floated | xcomp |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 air | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 air | det |
| 13 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 thick | obl |
| 14 | around | around | ADP | _ | 15 it | case |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 air | nmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 filled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fill | past | the smell of fish | the vessel | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent vessel=Patient | ||||
| 2 | float | participle | the smell of fish not said here | thick property | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | smell | fish | nom smell «cognition intransitive»: of=agent |
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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