The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Great Pike, sentence 102

She flapped her fiery wings until the sun glowed hot above her; she leaped from her perch; she soared upward, higher and higher, above the treetops, above the desolate mountains.

Who acts: sky, sun · What happens: flap, glow, leap, soar, desolate · To what, where: fiery wings, perch, treetops, mountains

This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Great Pike. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sky, sun), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 flapped	nsubj
2	flapped	flap	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 wings	nmod:poss
4	fiery	fiery	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 wings	amod
5	wings	wing	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 flapped	obj
6	until	until	SCONJ	_	9 glowed	mark
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 sun	det
8	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 glowed	nsubj
9	glowed	glow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 flapped	advcl
10	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 glowed	xcomp
11	above	above	ADP	_	12 her	case
12	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 hot	obl
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 leaped	punct
14	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 leaped	nsubj
15	leaped	leap	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 flapped	conj
16	from	from	ADP	_	18 perch	case
17	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 perch	nmod:poss
18	perch	perch	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 leaped	obl
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 soared	punct
20	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 soared	nsubj
21	soared	soar	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 flapped	parataxis
22	upward	upward	ADV	_	21 soared	advmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 higher	punct
24	higher	high	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	21 soared	conj
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 higher	cc
26	higher	high	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	24 higher	conj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 treetops	punct
28	above	above	ADP	_	30 treetops	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 treetops	det
30	treetops	treetop	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 soared	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 desolate	punct
32	above	above	ADP	_	34 desolate	mark
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 desolate	det
34	desolate	desolate	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 soared	conj
35	mountains	mountain	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 desolate	obj
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 flapped	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	flap	past	sky	sky's fiery wings			vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wing=Patient
2	glow	past	the sun			hot property	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	leap	past	sky		sky's perch		vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from perch=Trajectory
4	soar	past	sky		the treetops	upward property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme above treetop=Trajectory
5	desolate	infinitive	sky not said here	mountains			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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🌲 The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Great Pike, sentence 102

The tree

Pragmatics

The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Great Pike, sentence 102