The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Unexpected Journey, sentence 108
Soon the house was filled with a mighty steam; the Smith was lost to view in the dense hot vapor.
What happens: fill, lose, view · To what, where: house, Smith, dense hot vapor
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Unexpected Journey. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | Soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 filled | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 house | det |
| 3 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 filled | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 filled | aux:pass |
| 5 | filled | fill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 steam | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 steam | det |
| 8 | mighty | mighty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 steam | amod |
| 9 | steam | steam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 filled | obl |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 lost | punct |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Smith | det |
| 12 | Smith | Smith | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 lost | nsubj |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 lost | aux:pass |
| 14 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 filled | conj |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 view | mark |
| 16 | view | view | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 lost | xcomp |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 vapor | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 vapor | det |
| 19 | dense | dense | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 vapor | amod |
| 20 | hot | hot | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 vapor | amod |
| 21 | vapor | vapor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 view | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 filled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fill | past · passive | the house | with a mighty steam; soon property | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Patient with steam=Instrument | ||||
| 2 | lose | past · passive | the Smith | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | view | to-infinitive | the dense hot vapor | vn characterize-29.2-1 «NP V how S»: 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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