The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, Mistress and Minstrel, sentence 18

So, on the morrow, long before any one else had risen, she was up and bustling hither and thither, attending to this thing and that and putting the house in order.

Who acts: one, Maid · What happens: rise, be, bustle, attend, put · To what, where: house, order

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 (one, Maid), 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	So	so	ADV	_	7 long	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 So	punct
3	on	on	ADP	_	5 morrow	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 morrow	det
5	morrow	morrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 long	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 morrow	punct
7	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	17 up	advmod
8	before	before	SCONJ	_	13 risen	mark
9	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	10 one	det
10	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 risen	nsubj
11	else	else	ADV	_	10 one	advmod
12	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 risen	aux
13	risen	rise	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	17 up	advcl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 risen	punct
15	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 up	nsubj
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 up	cop
17	up	up	ADV	_	root	root
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 bustling	cc
19	bustling	bustle	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	17 up	conj
20	hither	hither	ADV	_	19 bustling	advmod
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 thither	cc
22	thither	thither	ADV	_	20 hither	conj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 attending	punct
24	attending	attend	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	19 bustling	conj
25	to	to	ADP	_	27 thing	case
26	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	27 thing	det
27	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 attending	obl
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 that	cc
29	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	27 thing	nmod
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 putting	cc
31	putting	put	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	24 attending	conj
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 house	det
33	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 putting	obj
34	in	in	ADP	_	35 order	case
35	order	order	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 putting	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 up	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	rise	past · perfect	any one				vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	Maid			long, up property	tree rules
3	bustle	gerund	Maid not said here		thither	hither property	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	attend	gerund	Maid not said here			to this thing that	vn caring-75.2-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent to thing=Theme
5	put	gerund	Maid not said here	the house	order		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent house=Theme in order=Destination

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 18

The tree

Pragmatics

The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, Mistress and Minstrel, sentence 18