The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, Mistress and Minstrel, sentence 14

The Mistress was satisfied; and as she turned to enter her chamber you should have seen how unlike the mother was the fair daughter whom men called the Maid of Beauty.

Who acts: Mistress, you, mother · What happens: be, turn, enter, see, call · To what, where: chamber, men · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, Mistress and Minstrel. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Mistress, you, mother), 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 Mistress	det
2	Mistress	mistress	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 satisfied	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 satisfied	cop
4	satisfied	satisfied	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	;	;	PUNCT	_	9 turned	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 turned	cc
7	as	as	SCONJ	_	9 turned	mark
8	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 turned	nsubj
9	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 satisfied	conj
10	to	to	PART	_	11 enter	mark
11	enter	enter	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 turned	xcomp
12	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 chamber	nmod:poss
13	chamber	chamber	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 enter	obj
14	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	17 seen	nsubj
15	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 seen	aux
16	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	17 seen	aux
17	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	9 turned	ccomp
18	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	17 seen	advmod
19	unlike	unlike	ADP	_	25 daughter	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 mother	det
21	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 daughter	nsubj
22	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 daughter	cop
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 daughter	det
24	fair	fair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 daughter	amod
25	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 how	obl
26	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	27 men	det
27	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 daughter	conj
28	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	27 men	acl
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 Maid	det
30	Maid	Maid	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 called	xcomp
31	of	of	ADP	_	32 Beauty	case
32	Beauty	Beauty	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 Maid	nmod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 satisfied	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	the Mistress		satisfied property	tree rules
2	turn	past	Mistress			tree rules
3	enter	to-infinitive	Mistress not said here	Mistress's chamber		vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme chamber=Destination
4	see	should · perfect	you			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
5	is	past	the mother		unlike the fair daughter and whom men; whom men conj	tree rules
6	call	participle		whom men not said here	the Maid of Beauty xcomp	vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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🌲 The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, Mistress and Minstrel, sentence 14

The tree

Pragmatics

The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, Mistress and Minstrel, sentence 14