The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Unexpected Journey, sentence 151

They had been placed there by the trusty serving-man, and now they all began twittering and singing, and the faster they travelled the louder was their sweet music.

Who acts: trusty serving man, courage · What happens: place, begin, twitter, sing, travel, be · To what, where: courage, louder sweet music

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 (trusty serving man, courage), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 placed	nsubj:pass
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 placed	aux
3	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 placed	aux:pass
4	placed	place	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 placed	advmod
6	by	by	ADP	_	11 man	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 man	det
8	trusty	trusty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 man	amod
9	serving	serving	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 man	compound
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 serving	punct
11	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 placed	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 began	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 began	cc
14	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	17 began	advmod
15	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 began	nsubj
16	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	17 began	advmod
17	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 placed	parataxis
18	twittering	twitter	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	17 began	xcomp
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 singing	cc
20	singing	sing	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	18 twittering	conj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 travelled	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 travelled	cc
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 faster	det
24	faster	fast	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	26 travelled	advmod
25	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 travelled	nsubj
26	travelled	travel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 began	conj
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 louder	det
28	louder	loud	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	32 music	amod
29	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 music	cop
30	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 music	nmod:poss
31	sweet	sweet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 music	amod
32	music	music	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 travelled	obj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 placed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	place	past · perfect · passive	the trusty serving man	courage	there			vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme
2	begin	past	courage			now		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	twitter	gerund	courage not said here					vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	sing speech: express	gerund	courage not said here					vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	travel	past	courage					vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	is a	past		courage's louder sweet music			courage nmod:poss	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 151

The tree

Pragmatics

The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Unexpected Journey, sentence 151