The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, Mistress and Minstrel, sentence 3
Her face was wrinkled and grim, her thin lips were puckered over her toothless mouth, her gray-green eyes sparkled beneath her shaggy eyebrows.
Who acts: green eyes · What happens: wrinkle, pucker, sparkle · To what, where: face, thin lips, toothless mouth, shaggy eyebrows
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 (green eyes), 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 | Her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 face | nmod:poss |
| 2 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 wrinkled | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 wrinkled | aux:pass |
| 4 | wrinkled | wrinkle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 grim | cc |
| 6 | grim | grim | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 wrinkled | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 puckered | punct |
| 8 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 lips | nmod:poss |
| 9 | thin | thin | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 lips | amod |
| 10 | lips | lip | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 puckered | nsubj |
| 11 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 puckered | aux:pass |
| 12 | puckered | pucker | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 wrinkled | conj |
| 13 | over | over | ADP | _ | 16 mouth | case |
| 14 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 mouth | nmod:poss |
| 15 | toothless | toothless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 mouth | amod |
| 16 | mouth | mouth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 puckered | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 sparkled | punct |
| 18 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 19 | gray | gray | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 green | compound |
| 20 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 19 gray | punct |
| 21 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 eyes | amod |
| 22 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 sparkled | nsubj |
| 23 | sparkled | sparkle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 puckered | conj |
| 24 | beneath | beneath | ADP | _ | 27 eyebrows | case |
| 25 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 eyebrows | nmod:poss |
| 26 | shaggy | shaggy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 eyebrows | amod |
| 27 | eyebrows | eyebrow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 sparkled | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 wrinkled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wrinkle | past · passive | Dame's face | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 2 | pucker | past · passive | Dame's thin lips | Dame's toothless mouth | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 3 | sparkle | past | Dame's green eyes | Dame's shaggy eyebrows | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme beneath eyebrow=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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