The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Field of Serpents, sentence 86
Then with caution he drew the caldron from the flames, he lifted the lid and looked warily inside.
Who acts: smoke · What happens: draw, lift, look · To what, where: caldron, flames, lid
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 (smoke), 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 | 5 drew | advmod |
| 2 | with | with | ADP | _ | 3 caution | case |
| 3 | caution | caution | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 drew | obl |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 drew | nsubj |
| 5 | drew | draw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 caldron | det |
| 7 | caldron | caldron | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 drew | obj |
| 8 | from | from | ADP | _ | 10 flames | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 flames | det |
| 10 | flames | flame | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 drew | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 lifted | punct |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 lifted | nsubj |
| 13 | lifted | lift | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 drew | conj |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 lid | det |
| 15 | lid | lid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 lifted | obj |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 looked | cc |
| 17 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 lifted | conj |
| 18 | warily | warily | ADV | _ | 17 looked | advmod |
| 19 | inside | inside | ADV | _ | 17 looked | advmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 drew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | draw | past | smoke | the caldron | the flames | then | with caution | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent caldron=Theme from flame=Initial_Location | |
| 2 | lift | past | smoke | the lid | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lid=Theme | ||||
| 3 | look | past | smoke not said here | inside, warily property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
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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