The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, Mistress and Minstrel, sentence 28
She looked out of the door and saw the first rays of the sun dancing and glancing upon the uneasy surface of the sea.
Who acts: maiden · What happens: look out, see, glance, ray · To what, where: door, first rays, sun dancing
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 (maiden), 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 looked | nsubj |
| 2 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | out | out | ADP | _ | 6 door | case |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 door | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 door | det |
| 6 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 looked | obl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 saw | cc |
| 8 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 looked | conj |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 rays | det |
| 10 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 11 rays | amod |
| 11 | rays | ray | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 saw | obj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 dancing | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 dancing | det |
| 14 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 dancing | compound |
| 15 | dancing | dancing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 rays | nmod |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 glancing | cc |
| 17 | glancing | glance | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 dancing | conj |
| 18 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 21 surface | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 surface | det |
| 20 | uneasy | uneasy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 surface | amod |
| 21 | surface | surface | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 glancing | obl |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 sea | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 sea | det |
| 24 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 surface | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look out | past | maiden | the door | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | see | past | maiden not said here | the first rays of the sun dancing | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer ray=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | glance | gerund | maiden not said here | upon the uneasy surface of the sea | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent upon surface=Theme | ||||
| 4 | ray | the sun dancing | nom ray «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient |
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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