The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Field of Serpents, sentence 55
The Maid of Beauty drew back; her cheeks blushed crimson and her eyes flashed fire as she answered:
Who acts: Maid, cheeks, eyes, eye · What happens: draw back, blush, flash, answer · To what, where: crimson, fire
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, cheeks, eyes, eye), 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 | 5 drew | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 Beauty | case |
| 4 | Beauty | Beauty | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Maid | nmod |
| 5 | drew | draw | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | back | back | ADV | _ | 5 drew | advmod |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 10 blushed | punct |
| 8 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 cheeks | nmod:poss |
| 9 | cheeks | cheek | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 blushed | nsubj |
| 10 | blushed | blush | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 drew | conj |
| 11 | crimson | crimson | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 blushed | obj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 flashed | cc |
| 13 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 14 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 flashed | nsubj |
| 15 | flashed | flash | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 blushed | conj |
| 16 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 flashed | obj |
| 17 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 19 answered | mark |
| 18 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 answered | nsubj |
| 19 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 flashed | advcl |
| 20 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 5 drew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | draw back | past | the Maid of Beauty | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | blush | past | Maid's cheeks | crimson | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | flash | past | Maid's eyes | fire | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent fire=Theme | ||||
| 4 | answer speech: assert | past | eye | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=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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