The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Unexpected Journey, sentence 61
Then he heaped more fuel upon his fire and blew his bellows till the flames leaped up to the roof of his smithy.
Who acts: Smith · What happens: heap, blow, leap up, fire, bellow · To what, where: more fuel, fire, bellows, flames, roof
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 (Smith), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 heaped | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 heaped | nsubj |
| 3 | heaped | heap | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 5 fuel | amod |
| 5 | fuel | fuel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 heaped | obj |
| 6 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 8 fire | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 fire | nmod:poss |
| 8 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 heaped | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 blew | cc |
| 10 | blew | blow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 heaped | conj |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 bellows | nmod:poss |
| 12 | bellows | bellow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 blew | obj |
| 13 | till | till | ADP | _ | 15 flames | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 flames | det |
| 15 | flames | flame | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 blew | obl |
| 16 | leaped | leap | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 flames | acl |
| 17 | up | up | ADP | _ | 16 leaped | compound:prt |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 roof | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 roof | det |
| 20 | roof | roof | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 leaped | obl |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 smithy | case |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 smithy | nmod:poss |
| 23 | smithy | smithy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 roof | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 heaped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | heap | past | Smith | more fuel | Smith's fire | then | vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent fuel=Theme upon fire=Destination | ||
| 2 | blow | past | Smith not said here | Smith's bellows | till the flames | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent bellow=Patient | |||
| 3 | leap up | participle | the flames not said here | the roof of Smith's smithy | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to roof=Destination | ||||
| 4 | fire | Smith | nom fire «event transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 5 | bellow | Smith | nom bellow «communication intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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