The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Maid of Beauty, sentence 23
Faster and faster flew the magic shuttle, and the buzzing sounded louder; but the maiden had heard the Minstrel’s call.
Who acts: Faster, buzzing, Minstrel · What happens: fly, sound, hear, call · To what, where: magic shuttle, maiden · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Faster, buzzing, Minstrel), 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 | Faster | fast | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 4 flew | nsubj |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 faster | cc |
| 3 | faster | fast | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 1 Faster | conj |
| 4 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 shuttle | det |
| 6 | magic | magic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 shuttle | amod |
| 7 | shuttle | shuttle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 flew | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 sounded | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 sounded | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 buzzing | det |
| 11 | buzzing | buzzing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 sounded | nsubj |
| 12 | sounded | sound | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 flew | conj |
| 13 | louder | loud | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 12 sounded | advmod |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 heard | punct |
| 15 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 19 heard | cc |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 maiden | det |
| 17 | maiden | maiden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 heard | nsubj:pass |
| 18 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 heard | aux |
| 19 | heard | hear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 flew | conj |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 Minstrel | det |
| 21 | Minstrel | Minstrel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 call | nmod:poss |
| 22 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 21 Minstrel | case |
| 23 | call | call | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 heard | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 flew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fly | past | Faster | the magic shuttle | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location shuttle=Theme | ||||
| 2 | sound | past | the buzzing | loud property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | hear | past · perfect · passive | the maiden | the Minstrel's call obj | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | call | the Minstrel | nom call «communication transitive»: poss=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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