The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Unexpected Journey, sentence 5

So busy, indeed, was the master Smith that he heard nothing, saw nothing, thought of nothing, save the work which he had in hand; therefore, when his sister Anniki came suddenly to the outer door and called to him, he did not hear her.

Who acts: elf, sister · What happens: be, hear, see, think, save, have · To what, where: master Smith, nothing, work, hand, outer door, elf · 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 (elf, sister), 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	So	so	ADV	_	2 busy	advmod
2	busy	busy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 busy	punct
4	indeed	indeed	ADV	_	2 busy	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 busy	punct
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 Smith	cop
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Smith	det
8	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 Smith	compound
9	Smith	Smith	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 busy	parataxis
10	that	that	SCONJ	_	12 heard	mark
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 heard	nsubj
12	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 busy	advcl
13	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	12 heard	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 saw	punct
15	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 heard	conj
16	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	15 saw	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 thought	punct
18	thought	think	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	16 nothing	acl
19	of	of	ADP	_	20 nothing	case
20	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	18 thought	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 save	punct
22	save	save	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 saw	conj
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 work	det
24	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 save	obj
25	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	27 had	obj
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 had	nsubj
27	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 work	acl:relcl
28	in	in	ADP	_	29 hand	case
29	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 had	obl
30	;	;	PUNCT	_	37 came	punct
31	therefore	therefore	ADV	_	37 came	advmod
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 therefore	punct
33	when	when	SCONJ	_	37 came	mark
34	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 sister	nmod:poss
35	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 came	nsubj
36	Anniki	Anniki	PROPN	Number=Sing	35 sister	appos
37	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 busy	parataxis
38	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	_	37 came	advmod
39	to	to	ADP	_	42 door	case
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 door	det
41	outer	outer	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 door	amod
42	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 came	obl
43	and	and	CCONJ	_	44 called	cc
44	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	37 came	conj
45	to	to	ADP	_	46 him	case
46	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	44 called	obl
47	,	,	PUNCT	_	51 hear	punct
48	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	51 hear	nsubj
49	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	51 hear	aux
50	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	51 hear	advmod
51	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 busy	conj
52	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	51 hear	obj
53	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 busy	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the master Smith				tree rules
2	hear	past	elf	nothing				vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer nothing=Stimulus
3	see	past	elf not said here	nothing				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer nothing=Stimulus
4	think speech: other	participle					of nothing	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	save	infinitive	elf not said here	the work				vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent work=Theme
6	have	past	elf	the work		hand		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Patient
7	come	past	elf's sister			the outer door	suddenly, therefore property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to door=Initial_Location
8	call	participle	elf's sister not said here		elf			vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient
9	not hear	past · do-support	elf	sister				vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus

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 5

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The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Unexpected Journey, sentence 5