The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Unexpected Journey, sentence 50
“And a golden comb for my hair?”
To what, where: golden comb
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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 comb | punct |
| 2 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 comb | cc |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 comb | det |
| 4 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 comb | amod |
| 5 | comb | comb | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 hair | case |
| 7 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 hair | nmod:poss |
| 8 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 comb | nmod |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 comb | punct |
| 10 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 comb | punct |
Pragmatics
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66819/20/50/