The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Field of Serpents, sentence 46
The Maid of Beauty was standing before him, her eyes were full of tears, her face betrayed the grief that was in her heart.
Who acts: Maid, eyes, face, grief · What happens: stand, be, betray · To what, where: grief, heart
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, eyes, face, grief), 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 Maid | det |
| 2 | Maid | Maid | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 standing | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 Beauty | case |
| 4 | Beauty | Beauty | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Maid | nmod |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 standing | aux |
| 6 | standing | stand | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 7 | before | before | ADP | _ | 8 him | case |
| 8 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 standing | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 full | punct |
| 10 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 11 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 full | nsubj |
| 12 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 full | cop |
| 13 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 standing | advcl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 tears | case |
| 15 | tears | tear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 full | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 betrayed | punct |
| 17 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 face | nmod:poss |
| 18 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 betrayed | nsubj |
| 19 | betrayed | betray | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 standing | conj |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 grief | det |
| 21 | grief | grief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 betrayed | obj |
| 22 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 26 heart | nsubj |
| 23 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 heart | cop |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 heart | case |
| 25 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 heart | nmod:poss |
| 26 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 grief | acl:relcl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 standing | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past · progressive | the Maid of Beauty | before racer | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before he=Location | ||||
| 2 | is | past | Maid's eyes | of tears; full property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | betray | past | Maid's face | the grief | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | is | past | the grief | Maid's heart | Maid nmod:poss | tree rules |
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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