The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Maid of the Morning, sentence 70
“’Tis no such thing!” cried the maiden angrily, and she beat the water with her feet until the sea seemed boiling around her.
Who acts: Tis, sea · What happens: cry, beat, seem, boil · To what, where: water
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 (Tis, sea), 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 | _ | 9 cried | punct |
| 2 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 Tis | punct |
| 3 | Tis | Tis | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 cried | nsubj |
| 4 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 6 thing | det |
| 5 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 thing | amod |
| 6 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 Tis | appos |
| 7 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 Tis | punct |
| 8 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 Tis | punct |
| 9 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 maiden | det |
| 11 | maiden | maiden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 cried | xcomp |
| 12 | angrily | angrily | ADV | _ | 11 maiden | advmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 beat | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 beat | cc |
| 15 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 beat | nsubj |
| 16 | beat | beat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 cried | conj |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 water | det |
| 18 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 beat | obj |
| 19 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 feet | case |
| 20 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 feet | nmod:poss |
| 21 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 beat | obl |
| 22 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 25 seemed | mark |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 sea | det |
| 24 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 seemed | nsubj |
| 25 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 beat | advcl |
| 26 | boiling | boil | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 25 seemed | xcomp |
| 27 | around | around | ADP | _ | 28 her | case |
| 28 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 boiling | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cry speech: express | past | Tis | maiden property | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | beat | past | Tis | the water | with Tis's feet | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent water=Patient with foot=Instrument | |||
| 3 | seem | past | the sea | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | |||||
| 4 | boil | gerund | the sea not said here | around Tis | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
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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