The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Field of Serpents, sentence 14
Then the Maid of Beauty came forward with the bowl of honey and the pitcher of milk, a smile on her lips and a sparkle in her eye.
Who acts: Maid · What happens: come forward
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 (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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 came | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Maid | det |
| 3 | Maid | Maid | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 came | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 Beauty | case |
| 5 | Beauty | Beauty | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Maid | nmod |
| 6 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | forward | forward | ADV | _ | 6 came | advmod |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 bowl | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 bowl | det |
| 10 | bowl | bowl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 came | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 honey | case |
| 12 | honey | honey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 bowl | nmod |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 pitcher | cc |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 pitcher | det |
| 15 | pitcher | pitcher | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 honey | conj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 milk | case |
| 17 | milk | milk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 pitcher | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 smile | punct |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 smile | det |
| 20 | smile | smile | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 bowl | conj |
| 21 | on | on | ADP | _ | 23 lips | case |
| 22 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 lips | nmod:poss |
| 23 | lips | lip | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 smile | nmod |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 sparkle | cc |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 sparkle | det |
| 26 | sparkle | sparkle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 lips | conj |
| 27 | in | in | ADP | _ | 29 eye | case |
| 28 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 eye | nmod:poss |
| 29 | eye | eye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 sparkle | nmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come forward | past | the Maid of Beauty | then | with the bowl of honey and the pitcher of milk and a smile on life's lips and a sparkle in life's eye; forward property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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