The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Unexpected Journey, sentence 141
Very soon the fleet-footed gray steed and the enchanted sledge were brought to the door.
What happens: enchant, bring · To what, where: footed gray steed, door
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 | Very | very | ADV | _ | 2 soon | advmod |
| 2 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 14 brought | advmod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 steed | det |
| 4 | fleet | fleet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 footed | compound |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 fleet | punct |
| 6 | footed | footed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 steed | amod |
| 7 | gray | gray | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 steed | amod |
| 8 | steed | steed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 brought | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 sledge | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 sledge | det |
| 11 | enchanted | enchant | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 sledge | amod |
| 12 | sledge | sledge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 steed | conj |
| 13 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 brought | aux:pass |
| 14 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 door | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 door | det |
| 17 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 brought | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 brought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | enchant | participle | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 2 | bring | past · passive | the footed gray steed and the enchanted sledge | the door | soon property | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme to door=Destination |
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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