The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Unexpected Journey, sentence 11

But the hammer continued to strike, the anvil kept on singing, the fire in the forge flamed higher, and there was no pause in the Smith’s sweet singing.

Who acts: hammer, anvil, pause, Smith · What happens: continue, strike, keep, flame, be, sing · To what, where: anvil, singing

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: who acts (hammer, anvil, pause, Smith), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	4 continued	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 hammer	det
3	hammer	hammer	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 continued	nsubj
4	continued	continue	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 strike	mark
6	strike	strike	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 continued	xcomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 anvil	punct
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 anvil	det
9	anvil	anvil	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 flamed	nsubj
10	kept	keep	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 anvil	acl
11	on	on	ADP	_	12 singing	case
12	singing	singing	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 kept	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 fire	punct
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 fire	det
15	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 flamed	nsubj
16	in	in	ADP	_	18 forge	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 forge	det
18	forge	forge	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 fire	nmod
19	flamed	flame	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 strike	ccomp
20	higher	high	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	19 flamed	xcomp
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 was	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 was	cc
23	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	24 was	expl
24	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 continued	conj
25	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	26 pause	det
26	pause	pause	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 was	nsubj
27	in	in	ADP	_	32 singing	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 Smith	det
29	Smith	Smith	PROPN	Number=Sing	32 singing	nmod:poss
30	’s	's	PART	_	29 Smith	case
31	sweet	sweet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 singing	amod
32	singing	singing	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 pause	nmod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 continued	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	continue	past	the hammer				vn continue-55.3 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	strike	to-infinitive	the hammer not said here				tree rules
3	keep	participle		the anvil not said here	singing		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent on singing=Location
4	flame	past	the anvil			the fire in the forge nsubj; high property	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	be	past	no pause in the Smith's sweet singing		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	sing		the Smith				nom singing «act transitive»: poss=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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🌲 The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Unexpected Journey, sentence 11

The tree

Pragmatics

The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Unexpected Journey, sentence 11