The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Unexpected Journey, sentence 112

His hair was a golden yellow; his cheeks were as ruddy as cranberries in the late days of autumn; his eyes sparkled like two full moons when the sky is clear and the winds are at rest.

Who acts: hair, cheeks, eyes, sky, winds · What happens: be, sparkle · To what, where: golden yellow, rest

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 (hair, cheeks, eyes, sky), 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	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 hair	nmod:poss
2	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 yellow	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 yellow	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 yellow	det
5	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 yellow	amod
6	yellow	yellow	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 ruddy	punct
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 cheeks	nmod:poss
9	cheeks	cheek	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 ruddy	nsubj
10	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 ruddy	cop
11	as	as	ADV	_	12 ruddy	advmod
12	ruddy	ruddy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 yellow	conj
13	as	as	ADP	_	14 cranberries	case
14	cranberries	cranberry	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 ruddy	obl
15	in	in	ADP	_	18 days	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 days	det
17	late	late	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 days	amod
18	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 cranberries	nmod
19	of	of	ADP	_	20 autumn	case
20	autumn	autumn	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 days	nmod
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 sparkled	punct
22	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 eyes	nmod:poss
23	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 sparkled	nsubj
24	sparkled	sparkle	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 yellow	conj
25	like	like	ADP	_	28 moons	case
26	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	28 moons	nummod
27	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 moons	amod
28	moons	moon	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 sparkled	obl
29	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	33 clear	advmod
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 sky	det
31	sky	sky	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 clear	nsubj
32	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	33 clear	cop
33	clear	clear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 sparkled	advcl
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 rest	cc
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 winds	det
36	winds	wind	NOUN	Number=Plur	39 rest	nsubj
37	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	39 rest	cop
38	at	at	ADP	_	39 rest	case
39	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 clear	conj
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 yellow	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	past	Smith's hair	a golden yellow			tree rules
2	is	past	Smith's cheeks			as cranberries in the late days of autumn; ruddy property	tree rules
3	sparkle	participle	Smith's eyes			like two full moons	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	is	present	the sky			clear property	tree rules
5	is	present	the winds		rest		tree rules

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 112

The tree

Pragmatics

The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Unexpected Journey, sentence 112