The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Bridegroom’s Triumph, sentence 21
“What does the child mean?” queried the Mistress, rising half-way from her couch beside the fire.
Who acts: child · What happens: mean, query, rise · To what, where: Mistress, half way, couch · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Bridegroom’s Triumph. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (child), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 mean | punct |
| 2 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 6 mean | obj |
| 3 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 mean | aux |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 child | det |
| 5 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 mean | nsubj |
| 6 | mean | mean | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 queried | ccomp |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 mean | punct |
| 8 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 mean | punct |
| 9 | queried | query | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Mistress | det |
| 11 | Mistress | mistress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 queried | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 rising | punct |
| 13 | rising | rise | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 queried | advcl |
| 14 | half | half | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 16 way | compound |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 half | punct |
| 16 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 rising | obj |
| 17 | from | from | ADP | _ | 19 couch | case |
| 18 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 couch | nmod:poss |
| 19 | couch | couch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 rising | obl |
| 20 | beside | beside | ADP | _ | 22 fire | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 fire | det |
| 22 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 couch | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 queried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean in a quote | present · do-support | the child | What obj | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic | ||||
| 2 | query | past | the Mistress | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | rise | gerund | half way | Mistress's couch beside the fire | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V NP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient way=Extent from couch=Initial_State |
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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