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The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Unexpected Journey, sentence 14

Then, losing patience, she ran through the thick of the smoke and seized her brother’s arm just as he was taking a fresh bit of glowing metal from the fire.

Who acts: Anniki, pause, fresh bit · What happens: lose, run, seize, take, glow · To what, where: patience, arm, fresh bit, metal, fire

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 (Anniki, pause, fresh bit), 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

advmodpunctadvclobjpunctnsubjcasedetxcompcasedetoblccconjnmod:possnmod:posscaseobjadvmodmarknsubjauxadvcldetamodobjmarkaclobjcasedetoblpunctrootThenADV,PUNCTlosingVERBpatienceNOUN,PUNCTshePRONranVERBthroughADPtheDETthickADJofADPtheDETsmokeNOUNandCCONJseizedVERBherPRONbrotherNOUN’sPARTarmNOUNjustADVasSCONJhePRONwasAUXtakingVERBaDETfreshADJbitNOUNofSCONJglowingVERBmetalNOUNfromADPtheDETfireNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1ThenthenADVPronType=Dem3 losingadvmod
2,,PUNCT_3 losingpunct
3losingloseVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part7 ranadvcl
4patiencepatienceNOUNNumber=Sing3 losingobj
5,,PUNCT_3 losingpunct
6sheshePRONCase=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs7 rannsubj
7ranrunVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
8throughthroughADP_10 thickcase
9thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art10 thickdet
10thickthickADJDegree=Pos7 ranxcomp
11ofofADP_13 smokecase
12thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art13 smokedet
13smokesmokeNOUNNumber=Sing10 thickobl
14andandCCONJ_15 seizedcc
15seizedseizeVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin7 ranconj
16herherPRONCase=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs17 brothernmod:poss
17brotherbrotherNOUNNumber=Sing19 armnmod:poss
18’s'sPART_17 brothercase
19armarmNOUNNumber=Sing15 seizedobj
20justjustADV_24 takingadvmod
21asasSCONJ_24 takingmark
22hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs24 takingnsubj
23wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin24 takingaux
24takingtakeVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part15 seizedadvcl
25aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art27 bitdet
26freshfreshADJDegree=Pos27 bitamod
27bitbitNOUNNumber=Sing24 takingobj
28ofofSCONJ_29 glowingmark
29glowingglowVERBVerbForm=Ger27 bitacl
30metalmetalNOUNNumber=Sing29 glowingobj
31fromfromADP_33 firecase
32thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art33 firedet
33firefireNOUNNumber=Sing29 glowingobl
34..PUNCT_7 ranpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1losegerundAnniki not said herepatiencethenvn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent patience=Eventuality
2runpastAnnikithick propertyvn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3seizepastAnniki not said hereAnniki's brother's armvn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent arm=Theme
4takepast · progressivepausea fresh bitvn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bit=Theme
5glowgerunda fresh bit not said heremetalthe firevn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent metal=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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