The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, Mistress and Minstrel, sentence 23
She scrubbed the birchwood tables till they were as white and glistening as the frost-covered meadows.
Who acts: Maid, tables · What happens: scrub, be, glisten, cover · To what, where: birchwood tables
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, tables), 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 scrubbed | nsubj |
| 2 | scrubbed | scrub | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 tables | det |
| 4 | birchwood | birchwood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 tables | compound |
| 5 | tables | table | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 scrubbed | obj |
| 6 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 10 white | mark |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 white | nsubj |
| 8 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 white | cop |
| 9 | as | as | ADP | _ | 10 white | case |
| 10 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 scrubbed | advcl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 glistening | cc |
| 12 | glistening | glisten | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 white | conj |
| 13 | as | as | ADP | _ | 18 meadows | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 meadows | det |
| 15 | frost | frost | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 covered | compound |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 frost | punct |
| 17 | covered | cover | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 meadows | amod |
| 18 | meadows | meadow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 glistening | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 scrubbed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | scrub | past | Maid | the birchwood tables | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent table=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is | past | tables = table | white property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | glisten | gerund | tables = table not said here | as the covered meadows | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | cover | participle | frost compound | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme |
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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