The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Unexpected Journey, sentence 58

She told him of the Minstrel’s magic boat, and of the voyage which he had planned, and of his cunning scheme to gain possession of the Maid of Beauty.

Who acts: Anniki, look · What happens: tell, plan, gain, scheme, possess · To what, where: look, possession, Maid · 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 (Anniki, look), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 told	nsubj
2	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 told	iobj
4	of	of	ADP	_	9 boat	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Minstrel	det
6	Minstrel	Minstrel	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 boat	nmod:poss
7	’s	's	PART	_	6 Minstrel	case
8	magic	magic	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 boat	compound
9	boat	boat	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 told	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 planned	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 planned	cc
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 voyage	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 voyage	det
14	voyage	voyage	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 planned	obl
15	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 planned	nsubj:pass
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 planned	nsubj
17	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 planned	aux
18	planned	plan	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 told	conj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 scheme	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 scheme	cc
21	of	of	ADP	_	24 scheme	case
22	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 scheme	nmod:poss
23	cunning	cunning	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 scheme	amod
24	scheme	scheme	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 told	parataxis
25	to	to	PART	_	26 gain	mark
26	gain	gain	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 scheme	acl
27	possession	possession	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 gain	obj
28	of	of	ADP	_	30 Maid	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 Maid	det
30	Maid	Maid	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 possession	nmod
31	of	of	ADP	_	32 Beauty	case
32	Beauty	Beauty	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 Maid	nmod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	Anniki		look	of the Minstrel's magic boat; look's cunning scheme parataxis	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
2	plan	past · perfect · passive				of the voyage; which nsubj:pass; look nsubj	vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic
3	gain	to-infinitive	Anniki not said here	possession of the Maid of Beauty			vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent possession=Theme
4	scheme		look				nom scheme «cognition transitive»: poss=agent
5	possess			the Maid of Beauty			nom possession «act transitive»: of=patient

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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Pragmatics

The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Unexpected Journey, sentence 58