The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Field of Serpents, sentence 13
She stirred the coals and threw on wood; the flames leaped up and filled the room with brightness.
Who acts: life, flames · What happens: stir, throw, leap up, fill · To what, where: coals, wood, room
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Field of Serpents. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (life, flames), 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 stirred | nsubj |
| 2 | stirred | stir | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 coals | det |
| 4 | coals | coal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 stirred | obj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 threw | cc |
| 6 | threw | throw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 stirred | conj |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 wood | case |
| 8 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 threw | obl |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 leaped | punct |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 flames | det |
| 11 | flames | flame | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 leaped | nsubj |
| 12 | leaped | leap | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 stirred | parataxis |
| 13 | up | up | ADP | _ | 12 leaped | compound:prt |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 filled | cc |
| 15 | filled | fill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 leaped | conj |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 room | det |
| 17 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 filled | obj |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 brightness | case |
| 19 | brightness | brightness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 room | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 stirred | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stir | past | life | the coals | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus coal=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | throw | past | life not said here | wood | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent on wood=Destination | ||||
| 3 | leap up | participle | the flames | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | fill | past | the flames not said here | the room | with brightness | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent room=Patient with brightness=Instrument |
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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