The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Old Man’s Wooing, sentence 33

Then with haste the two returned into their dwelling; they closed the door behind them; the mother sat down in her seat beside the fire, and the daughter resumed her weaving.

Who acts: haste, wages, mother, daughter · What happens: return, close, sit down, resume, weave · To what, where: dwelling, door, seat, weaving

This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Old Man’s Wooing. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (haste, wages, mother, daughter), 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	6 returned	advmod
2	with	with	ADP	_	3 haste	case
3	haste	haste	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 returned	nsubj
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 two	det
5	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 haste	appos
6	returned	return	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	into	into	ADP	_	9 dwelling	case
8	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 dwelling	nmod:poss
9	dwelling	dwelling	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 returned	obl
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 closed	punct
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 closed	nsubj
12	closed	close	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 returned	conj
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 door	det
14	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 closed	obj
15	behind	behind	ADP	_	16 them	case
16	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 closed	obl
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 sat	punct
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 mother	det
19	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 sat	nsubj
20	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 returned	conj
21	down	down	ADP	_	20 sat	compound:prt
22	in	in	ADP	_	24 seat	case
23	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 seat	nmod:poss
24	seat	seat	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 sat	obl
25	beside	beside	ADP	_	27 fire	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 fire	det
27	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 sat	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 resumed	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 resumed	cc
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 daughter	det
31	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 resumed	nsubj
32	resumed	resume	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 sat	conj
33	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 weaving	nmod:poss
34	weaving	weaving	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 resumed	obj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 returned	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	return	past	haste		wages's dwelling	then		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into dwelling=Initial_Location
2	close	past	wages = wage	the door			behind bluebirds = bluebird	vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent door=Patient
3	sit down	past	the mother		mother's seat		beside the fire	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in seat=Location
4	resume	past	the daughter	daughter's weaving				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent weaving=Eventuality
5	weave		daughter					nom weaving «act transitive»: 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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🌲 The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Old Man’s Wooing, sentence 33

The tree

Pragmatics

The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Old Man’s Wooing, sentence 33