The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Maid of Beauty, sentence 50
The Maid of Beauty looked down from her rainbow throne, and the mountains echoed with her laughter.
Who acts: Maid, mountains · What happens: look down, echo
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 (Maid, mountains), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Maid | det |
| 2 | Maid | Maid | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 looked | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 Beauty | case |
| 4 | Beauty | Beauty | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Maid | nmod |
| 5 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | down | down | ADV | _ | 5 looked | advmod |
| 7 | from | from | ADP | _ | 10 throne | case |
| 8 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 throne | nmod:poss |
| 9 | rainbow | rainbow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 throne | compound |
| 10 | throne | throne | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 looked | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 echoed | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 echoed | cc |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 mountains | det |
| 14 | mountains | mountain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 echoed | nsubj |
| 15 | echoed | echo | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 looked | conj |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 laughter | case |
| 17 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 laughter | nmod:poss |
| 18 | laughter | laughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 echoed | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look down | past | the Maid of Beauty | from Maid's rainbow throne; down property | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent from throne=Theme | ||||
| 2 | echo | past | the mountains | with Maid's laughter | vn sound_existence-47.4 «NP.location V NP.theme»: agent=Location with laughter=Theme |
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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