The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Maid of Beauty, sentence 16
Swiftly, to and fro, she drove the shuttle, and the fabric which she wove was wondrously fine.
Who acts: you, Maid, fabric · What happens: fro, drive, weave, be · To what, where: shuttle
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Maid of Beauty. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, Maid, fabric), 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 | Swiftly | swiftly | ADV | _ | 5 fro | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Swiftly | punct |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 fro | case |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 fro | cc |
| 5 | fro | fro | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 drove | punct |
| 7 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 drove | nsubj |
| 8 | drove | drive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 fro | conj |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 shuttle | det |
| 10 | shuttle | shuttle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 drove | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 fine | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 fine | cc |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 fabric | det |
| 14 | fabric | fabric | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 fine | nsubj |
| 15 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 wove | nsubj |
| 16 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 wove | nsubj |
| 17 | wove | weave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 fabric | acl:relcl |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 fine | cop |
| 19 | wondrously | wondrously | ADV | _ | 20 fine | advmod |
| 20 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 fro | conj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 fro | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fro | imperative | you not said here | swiftly property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | drive | past | Maid | the shuttle | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent shuttle=Location | ||||
| 3 | weave | past | the fabric | Maid nsubj | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | is | past | the fabric | fine, wondrously property | 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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