The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, Mistress and Minstrel, sentence 15
Nature had given to the maiden all the loveliness that had been denied to the dame.
What happens: give, deny · To what, where: Nature, maiden loveliness
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: 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 | Nature | nature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 given | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 given | aux |
| 3 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 loveliness | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 loveliness | det |
| 6 | maiden | maiden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 loveliness | amod |
| 7 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 9 loveliness | det:predet |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 loveliness | det |
| 9 | loveliness | loveliness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 given | obl |
| 10 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 denied | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 denied | aux |
| 12 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 13 denied | aux:pass |
| 13 | denied | deny | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 loveliness | acl:relcl |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 dame | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 dame | det |
| 16 | dame | dame | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 denied | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 given | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past · perfect · passive | Nature | the maiden loveliness | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Theme to loveliness=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | deny | past · perfect · passive | the maiden loveliness | to the dame | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V NP to be NP»: subject=Eventuality |
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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