The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Maid of the Morning, sentence 6
The fairy vessel hesitated, then stopped stock-still not forty paces from dry land.
Who acts: fairy vessel · What happens: hesitate, stop · To what, where: fairy vessel, stock
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 (fairy vessel), 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 | 3 vessel | det |
| 2 | fairy | fairy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 vessel | amod |
| 3 | vessel | vessel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 stopped | nsubj |
| 4 | hesitated | hesitate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 vessel | acl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 hesitated | punct |
| 6 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 stopped | advmod |
| 7 | stopped | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | stock | stock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 stopped | obj |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 stock | punct |
| 10 | still | still | ADV | _ | 12 forty | advmod |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 forty | advmod |
| 12 | forty | forty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 paces | nummod |
| 13 | paces | pace | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 stopped | obj |
| 14 | from | from | ADP | _ | 16 land | case |
| 15 | dry | dry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 land | amod |
| 16 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 paces | nmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 stopped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hesitate | participle | the fairy vessel not said here | vn linger-53.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | stop | past | the fairy vessel | stock | then | forty paces obj | tree rules |
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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