The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Maid of the Morning, sentence 61
Then she danced another gleeful dance, splashing the water over herself and over the Minstrel, and making little waves that rocked the fairy boat to and fro but did not stir it from its place.
Who acts: deck, little waves · What happens: dance, splash, make, rock, fro, not stir · To what, where: gleeful dance, water, little waves, fairy boat, boat, place
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 (deck, little waves), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 danced | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 danced | nsubj |
| 3 | danced | dance | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 6 dance | det |
| 5 | gleeful | gleeful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 dance | amod |
| 6 | dance | dance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 danced | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 splashing | punct |
| 8 | splashing | splash | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 danced | advcl |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 water | det |
| 10 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 splashing | obj |
| 11 | over | over | ADP | _ | 12 herself | case |
| 12 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 8 splashing | obl |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 Minstrel | cc |
| 14 | over | over | ADP | _ | 16 Minstrel | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Minstrel | det |
| 16 | Minstrel | Minstrel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 herself | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 making | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 making | cc |
| 19 | making | make | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 danced | advcl |
| 20 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 waves | amod |
| 21 | waves | wave | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 making | obj |
| 22 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 rocked | nsubj |
| 23 | rocked | rock | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 waves | acl:relcl |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 boat | det |
| 25 | fairy | fairy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 boat | amod |
| 26 | boat | boat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 rocked | obj |
| 27 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 rocked | obl |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 fro | cc |
| 29 | fro | fro | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 making | conj |
| 30 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 33 stir | cc |
| 31 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 stir | aux |
| 32 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 33 stir | advmod |
| 33 | stir | stir | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 danced | conj |
| 34 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 stir | obj |
| 35 | from | from | ADP | _ | 37 place | case |
| 36 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 37 place | nmod:poss |
| 37 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 stir | obl |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 danced | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dance | past | deck | another gleeful dance | then | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location dance=Theme | |||
| 2 | splash | gerund | deck not said here | the water | over deck | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent water=Theme over herself=Destination | |||
| 3 | make | gerund | deck not said here | little waves | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset wave=Product | ||||
| 4 | rock | past | little waves | the fairy boat | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location boat=Theme | ||||
| 5 | fro | infinitive | deck not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | not stir | past · do-support | deck not said here | boat | boat's place | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus it=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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