The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Barking Dogs, sentence 121

She carried it to the hearth and laid it on the coals; then all stood round to watch it.

Who acts: Maid · What happens: carry, lay, stand, watch · To what, where: stick, hearth, coals

This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Barking Dogs. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Maid), 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	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 carried	obj
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 hearth	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 hearth	det
6	hearth	hearth	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 carried	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 laid	cc
8	laid	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 carried	conj
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 laid	obj
10	on	on	ADP	_	12 coals	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 coals	det
12	coals	coal	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 laid	obl
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 stood	punct
14	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	16 stood	advmod
15	all	all	ADV	_	16 stood	advmod
16	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 carried	conj
17	round	round	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 stood	xcomp
18	to	to	PART	_	19 watch	mark
19	watch	watch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 stood	advcl
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 watch	obj
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 carried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	carry	past	Maid	stick	the hearth			vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme to hearth=Destination
2	lay	past	Maid not said here	stick	the coals			vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme on coal=Destination
3	stand	past	Maid not said here			then	all, round property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	watch	to-infinitive	Maid not said here	stick				vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

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 Barking Dogs, sentence 121

The tree

Pragmatics

The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Barking Dogs, sentence 121