The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Unexpected Journey, sentence 83
She carried them into the bath house and heaped them up on the big hearth; she brought hot coals from the kitchen and made a roaring fire.
Who acts: Anniki · What happens: carry, heap up, bring, make · To what, where: armloads, bath house, big hearth, hot coals, kitchen, roaring fire
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), 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 carried | nsubj |
| 2 | carried | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 carried | obj |
| 4 | into | into | ADP | _ | 7 house | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 house | det |
| 6 | bath | bath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 house | compound |
| 7 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 carried | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 heaped | cc |
| 9 | heaped | heap | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 carried | conj |
| 10 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 heaped | obj |
| 11 | up | up | ADP | _ | 9 heaped | compound:prt |
| 12 | on | on | ADP | _ | 15 hearth | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 hearth | det |
| 14 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 hearth | amod |
| 15 | hearth | hearth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 heaped | obl |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 brought | punct |
| 17 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 brought | nsubj |
| 18 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 carried | conj |
| 19 | hot | hot | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 coals | amod |
| 20 | coals | coal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 brought | obj |
| 21 | from | from | ADP | _ | 23 kitchen | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 kitchen | det |
| 23 | kitchen | kitchen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 brought | obl |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 made | cc |
| 25 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 carried | conj |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 fire | det |
| 27 | roaring | roaring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 fire | compound |
| 28 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 made | obj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 carried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | carry | past | Anniki | armloads = armload | the bath house | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | |||
| 2 | heap up | past | Anniki not said here | armloads = armload | the big hearth | vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme on hearth=Destination | |||
| 3 | bring | past | Anniki | hot coals | the kitchen | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent coal=Theme from kitchen=Initial_Location | |||
| 4 | make | past | Anniki not said here | a roaring fire | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset fire=Product |
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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