The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Maid of Beauty, sentence 55
And thereupon he picked up a golden hair which the maiden had let fall, and with a blunted knife he split it into halves and quarters.
Who acts: hero · What happens: pick up, let, blunt, split · To what, where: golden hair, maiden, hair, halves
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 (hero), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 picked | cc |
| 2 | thereupon | thereupon | ADV | _ | 4 picked | advmod |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 picked | nsubj |
| 4 | picked | pick | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | up | up | ADP | _ | 4 picked | compound:prt |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 hair | det |
| 7 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 hair | amod |
| 8 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 picked | obj |
| 9 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 let | obj |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 maiden | det |
| 11 | maiden | maiden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 let | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 let | aux |
| 13 | let | let | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 hair | acl:relcl |
| 14 | fall | fall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 let | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 split | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 split | cc |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 knife | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 knife | det |
| 19 | blunted | blunt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 knife | amod |
| 20 | knife | knife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 split | obl |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 split | nsubj |
| 22 | split | split | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 picked | conj |
| 23 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 split | obj |
| 24 | into | into | ADP | _ | 25 halves | case |
| 25 | halves | half | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 split | obl |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 quarters | cc |
| 27 | quarters | quarter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 halves | conj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 picked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pick up | past | hero | a golden hair | thereupon property | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hair=Topic | |||
| 2 | let | past · perfect · passive | the maiden | a golden hair obj; fall obj | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | blunt | participle | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 4 | split | past | hero | hair | into halves and quarters result; with a blunted knife | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.result PP.instrument»: agent=Agent it=Patient with knife=Instrument into half=Result |
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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