The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Great Pike, sentence 62
Her wings were as large as the sails of a ship, her claws and beak were of the hardest iron, her eyes were like flaming fire.
Who acts: wings, claws, eyes · What happens: be, flame · To what, where: fire
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 (wings, claws, eyes), 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 | Her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 wings | nmod:poss |
| 2 | wings | wing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 large | nsubj |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 large | cop |
| 4 | as | as | ADV | _ | 5 large | advmod |
| 5 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | as | as | ADP | _ | 8 sails | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 sails | det |
| 8 | sails | sail | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 large | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 ship | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 ship | det |
| 11 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 sails | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 claws | punct |
| 13 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 claws | nmod:poss |
| 14 | claws | claw | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 iron | nsubj |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 beak | cc |
| 16 | beak | beak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 claws | conj |
| 17 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 iron | cop |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 iron | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 iron | det |
| 20 | hardest | hard | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 21 iron | amod |
| 21 | iron | iron | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 large | parataxis |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 flaming | punct |
| 23 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 24 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 flaming | nsubj |
| 25 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 flaming | aux |
| 26 | like | like | SCONJ | _ | 27 flaming | mark |
| 27 | flaming | flame | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 21 iron | conj |
| 28 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 flaming | obj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 large | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | bird's wings | as the sails of a ship; large property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | past | bird's claws and beak | of the hardest iron | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | flame | past · progressive | bird's eyes | fire | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent fire=Theme |
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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