The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Field of Serpents, sentence 72
A wonderful thing it was, slender and strong and well fitted for the work it was designed to do.
Who acts: wonderful thing, work · What happens: be, fit, design, do · To what, where: thing
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 (wonderful thing, work), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 thing | det |
| 2 | wonderful | wonderful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 thing | amod |
| 3 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 slender | nsubj |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 slender | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 slender | cop |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 slender | punct |
| 7 | slender | slender | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 strong | cc |
| 9 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 slender | conj |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 fitted | cc |
| 11 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 12 fitted | advmod |
| 12 | fitted | fit | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 slender | conj |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 work | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 work | det |
| 15 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 fitted | obl |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 designed | nsubj:pass |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 designed | aux:pass |
| 18 | designed | design | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 work | acl:relcl |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 do | mark |
| 20 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 designed | xcomp |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 slender | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | a wonderful thing | thing nsubj; slender property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | a wonderful thing not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | fit | participle | a wonderful thing not said here | for the work; well property | vn adjust-26.9 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | design | past · passive | the work not said here | thing | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | do | to-infinitive | the work not said here | vn act-114-1 «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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