The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Unexpected Journey, sentence 38
None of your jesting;” and Anniki stamped her foot angrily, while she gave her brother a look which told him more plainly than words that this was no unimportant matter.
Who acts: None, Anniki, look, this · What happens: stamp, give, tell, be · To what, where: foot, look, brother, kiss, unimportant matter · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (None, Anniki, look, this), 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 | None | none | PRON | PronType=Neg | 9 stamped | nsubj |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 jesting | case |
| 3 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 jesting | nmod:poss |
| 4 | jesting | jesting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 None | nmod |
| 5 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 1 None | punct |
| 6 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 None | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 Anniki | cc |
| 8 | Anniki | Anniki | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 None | conj |
| 9 | stamped | stamp | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 foot | nmod:poss |
| 11 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 stamped | obj |
| 12 | angrily | angrily | ADV | _ | 9 stamped | advmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 gave | punct |
| 14 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 16 gave | mark |
| 15 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 gave | nsubj |
| 16 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 stamped | conj |
| 17 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 brother | nmod:poss |
| 18 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 gave | iobj |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 look | det |
| 20 | look | look | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 gave | obj |
| 21 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 told | nsubj |
| 22 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 look | acl:relcl |
| 23 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 told | iobj |
| 24 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 25 plainly | advmod |
| 25 | plainly | plainly | ADV | _ | 22 told | advmod |
| 26 | than | than | ADP | _ | 27 words | case |
| 27 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 plainly | obl |
| 28 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 33 matter | mark |
| 29 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 33 matter | nsubj |
| 30 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 matter | cop |
| 31 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 33 matter | det |
| 32 | unimportant | unimportant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 matter | amod |
| 33 | matter | matter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 told | ccomp |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 stamped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stamp in a quote | past | None of your jesting Anniki | Anniki's foot | angrily property | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent foot=Destination | |||
| 2 | give in a quote | past | Anniki | a look | Anniki's brother | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent brother=Recipient look=Theme | |||
| 3 | tell speech: assert in a quote | past | a look | kiss | plainly property | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient | |||
| 4 | is a in a quote | past | this | no unimportant matter | 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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