The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, Mistress and Minstrel, sentence 19
She went out to the sheepfold and sheared six fat lambs.
Who acts: Maid · What happens: go out, shear · To what, where: six fat lambs
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 (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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 went | nsubj |
| 2 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | out | out | ADV | _ | 2 went | advmod |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 sheepfold | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 sheepfold | det |
| 6 | sheepfold | sheepfold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 went | obl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 sheared | cc |
| 8 | sheared | shear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 went | conj |
| 9 | six | six | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 lambs | nummod |
| 10 | fat | fat | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 lambs | amod |
| 11 | lambs | lamb | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 sheared | obj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go out | past | Maid | to the sheepfold; out property | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | shear | past | Maid not said here | six fat lambs | vn wipe_instr-10.4.2-1 «NP V NP.initial_location»: agent=Agent lamb=Initial_Location |
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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