The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Field of Serpents, sentence 61
“Then let me tell you something,” said the Maid of Beauty.
Who acts: Maid · What happens: let, tell, say · To what, where: Maid, something, you · Speech: someone speaks here
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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 let | punct |
| 2 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 let | advmod |
| 3 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 said | ccomp |
| 4 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 let | obj |
| 5 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 let | xcomp |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 tell | iobj |
| 7 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 5 tell | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 let | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 let | punct |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Maid | det |
| 12 | Maid | Maid | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 said | nsubj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 Beauty | case |
| 14 | Beauty | Beauty | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Maid | nmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let in a quote | infinitive | the Maid of Beauty = maid | then | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert in a quote | infinitive | the Maid of Beauty = maid not said here | something | you | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient something=Topic | |||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the Maid of Beauty | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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