The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Bridegroom’s Triumph, sentence 54
She was hiding in her own room, her body all a-tremble, her face bathed in tears.
Who acts: Maid · What happens: hide, bath · To what, where: tremble, own room, face, tears
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 (Maid), 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 | 3 hiding | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 hiding | aux |
| 3 | hiding | hide | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 room | case |
| 5 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 room | nmod:poss |
| 6 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 room | amod |
| 7 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 hiding | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 body | punct |
| 9 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 body | nmod:poss |
| 10 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 room | conj |
| 11 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 14 tremble | det:predet |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 tremble | det |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 a | punct |
| 14 | tremble | tremble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 hiding | obl:unmarked |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 face | punct |
| 16 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 face | nmod:poss |
| 17 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 tremble | appos |
| 18 | bathed | bath | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 face | acl |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 tears | case |
| 20 | tears | tear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 bathed | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 hiding | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hide | past · progressive | Maid | all tremble | Maid's own room and Maid's body | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in room=Location | |||
| 2 | bath | participle | Maid's face not said here | tears | 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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