The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, Mistress and Minstrel, sentence 7

Already the swallows were asleep under the eaves, the reindeer were lying down in their paddock, all the underlings of Dame Louhi’s household had retired to rest.

Who acts: swallows · What happens: be, lie down, retire, rest · To what, where: eaves, paddock, underlings

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 (swallows), 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	Already	already	ADV	_	5 asleep	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 swallows	det
3	swallows	swallow	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 asleep	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 asleep	cop
5	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 lying	compound
6	under	under	ADP	_	8 eaves	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 eaves	det
8	eaves	eave	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 asleep	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 reindeer	punct
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 reindeer	det
11	reindeer	reindeer	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 eaves	conj
12	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 lying	aux
13	lying	lie	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	28 retired	advcl
14	down	down	ADV	_	13 lying	advmod
15	in	in	ADP	_	17 paddock	case
16	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 paddock	nmod:poss
17	paddock	paddock	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 lying	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 lying	punct
19	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	21 underlings	det:predet
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 underlings	det
21	underlings	underling	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 retired	nsubj:pass
22	of	of	ADP	_	26 household	case
23	Dame	Dame	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 household	nmod:poss
24	Louhi	Louhi	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 Dame	flat
25	’s	's	PART	_	23 Dame	case
26	household	household	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 underlings	nmod
27	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 retired	aux
28	retired	retire	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
29	to	to	PART	_	30 rest	mark
30	rest	rest	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 retired	xcomp
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	28 retired	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	the swallows		the eaves and the reindeer	asleep property	tree rules
2	lie down	past · progressive			swallows's paddock	down property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in paddock=Location
3	retire	past · perfect · passive		all underlings of Dame's household			tree rules
4	rest	to-infinitive					vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: 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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🌲 The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, Mistress and Minstrel, sentence 7

The tree

Pragmatics

The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, Mistress and Minstrel, sentence 7