The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Barking Dogs, sentence 123

The smoke curled lightly upward, the coals grew redder, the heat of the fire increased.

Who acts: smoke, fire · What happens: curl, grow, increase · To what, where: smoke, redder

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 (smoke, fire), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 smoke	det
2	smoke	smoke	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 grew	nsubj
3	curled	curl	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 smoke	acl
4	lightly	lightly	ADV	_	3 curled	advmod
5	upward	upward	ADV	_	3 curled	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 grew	punct
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 coals	det
8	coals	coal	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 grew	nsubj
9	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	redder	redder	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 grew	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 heat	punct
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 heat	det
13	heat	heat	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 redder	conj
14	of	of	SCONJ	_	17 increased	mark
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 fire	det
16	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 increased	nsubj
17	increased	increase	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 heat	advcl
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 grew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	curl	participle		the smoke not said here	lightly, upward property	vn coil-9.6-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Theme
2	grow	past	the smoke	redder and the heat	the coals nsubj	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location redder=Theme
3	increase	past	the fire			vn caused_calibratable_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=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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🌲 The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Barking Dogs, sentence 123

The tree

Pragmatics

The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Barking Dogs, sentence 123