The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, Mistress and Minstrel, sentence 37
Wise old Louhi, grim and toothless, rose quickly and hastened to the door, chattering and mumbling and grumbling.
Who acts: Wise old Louhi · What happens: rise, hasten, chatter, mumble, grumble · To what, where: door
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 (Wise old Louhi), 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 | Wise | wise | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Louhi | amod |
| 2 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Louhi | amod |
| 3 | Louhi | Louhi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 rose | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 grim | punct |
| 5 | grim | grim | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Louhi | amod |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 toothless | cc |
| 7 | toothless | toothless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 grim | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 rose | punct |
| 9 | rose | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | quickly | quickly | ADV | _ | 9 rose | advmod |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 hastened | cc |
| 12 | hastened | hasten | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 rose | conj |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 door | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 door | det |
| 15 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 hastened | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 chattering | punct |
| 17 | chattering | chatter | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 12 hastened | advcl |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 mumbling | cc |
| 19 | mumbling | mumble | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 17 chattering | conj |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 grumbling | cc |
| 21 | grumbling | grumble | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 17 chattering | conj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 rose | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rise | past | Wise old Louhi | quickly property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | hasten | participle | Wise old Louhi not said here | the door | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to door=Destination | ||||
| 3 | chatter | gerund | Wise old Louhi not said here | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | mumble speech: other | gerund | Wise old Louhi not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | grumble speech: other | gerund | Wise old Louhi not said here | vn complain-37.8 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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