The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Field of Serpents, sentence 9
Never in her life had she beheld a hero so finely clad, so perfect in form, so noble in feature.
What happens: behold, clad · To what, where: life
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: 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 | Never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 4 life | advmod |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 life | case |
| 3 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 life | nmod:poss |
| 4 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 beheld | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 beheld | aux |
| 6 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 beheld | nsubj |
| 7 | beheld | behold | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 hero | det |
| 9 | hero | hero | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 beheld | obj |
| 10 | so | so | ADV | _ | 12 clad | advmod |
| 11 | finely | finely | ADV | _ | 12 clad | advmod |
| 12 | clad | clad | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 beheld | advcl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 perfect | punct |
| 14 | so | so | ADV | _ | 15 perfect | advmod |
| 15 | perfect | perfect | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 beheld | conj |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 form | case |
| 17 | form | form | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 perfect | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 noble | punct |
| 19 | so | so | ADV | _ | 20 noble | advmod |
| 20 | noble | noble | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 perfect | conj |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 feature | case |
| 22 | feature | feature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 noble | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 beheld | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | behold | past · perfect · passive | Maid's life | Maid nsubj; a hero obj | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | clad | participle | finely property | 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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