The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Great Pike, sentence 79
It rose quickly, it leaped high into the air and with its long fingers clutched at Ilmarinen.
Who acts: sprite · What happens: rise, leap, clutch · To what, where: air, Ilmarinen
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 (sprite), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 rose | nsubj |
| 2 | rose | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | quickly | quickly | ADV | _ | 2 rose | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 leaped | punct |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 leaped | nsubj |
| 6 | leaped | leap | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 rose | conj |
| 7 | high | high | ADV | Degree=Pos | 6 leaped | advmod |
| 8 | into | into | ADP | _ | 10 air | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 air | det |
| 10 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 leaped | obl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 clutched | cc |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 fingers | case |
| 13 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 fingers | nmod:poss |
| 14 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 fingers | amod |
| 15 | fingers | finger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 clutched | obl |
| 16 | clutched | clutch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 leaped | conj |
| 17 | at | at | ADP | _ | 18 Ilmarinen | case |
| 18 | Ilmarinen | Ilmarinen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 clutched | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 rose | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rise | past | sprite | quickly property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | leap | past | sprite | the air | high property | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into air=Destination | |||
| 3 | clutch | past | sprite not said here | Ilmarinen | with sprite's long fingers | vn hold-15.1-1 «NP V NP»: 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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