The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Maid of Beauty, sentence 17
Threads of silver, threads of gold, threads of every brilliant color were mingled in that web of magic.
What happens: mingle · To what, where: Threads, web
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: 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 | Threads | thread | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 mingled | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 3 silver | case |
| 3 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Threads | nmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 threads | punct |
| 5 | threads | thread | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Threads | conj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 gold | case |
| 7 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 threads | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 threads | punct |
| 9 | threads | thread | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Threads | conj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 color | case |
| 11 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 13 color | det |
| 12 | brilliant | brilliant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 color | amod |
| 13 | color | color | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 threads | nmod |
| 14 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 mingled | aux:pass |
| 15 | mingled | mingle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 web | case |
| 17 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 18 web | det |
| 18 | web | web | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 mingled | obl |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 magic | case |
| 20 | magic | magic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 web | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 mingled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mingle | past · passive | Threads of silver and threads of gold and threads of every brilliant color | that web of magic | vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
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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