The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Maid of Beauty, sentence 56
Then from a bird’s nest on the side of the cliff he drew up an egg with a snare too fine for eyes to see.
Who acts: hero · What happens: draw up, see · To what, where: egg, nest
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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 14 drew | advmod |
| 2 | from | from | ADP | _ | 6 nest | case |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 bird | det |
| 4 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 nest | nmod:poss |
| 5 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 4 bird | case |
| 6 | nest | nest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 drew | obl |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 side | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 side | det |
| 9 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 nest | nmod |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 cliff | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 cliff | det |
| 12 | cliff | cliff | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 side | nmod |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 drew | nsubj |
| 14 | drew | draw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | up | up | ADP | _ | 14 drew | compound:prt |
| 16 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 egg | det |
| 17 | egg | egg | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 drew | obj |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 snare | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 snare | det |
| 20 | snare | snare | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 egg | nmod |
| 21 | too | too | ADV | _ | 22 fine | advmod |
| 22 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 snare | amod |
| 23 | for | for | ADP | _ | 24 eyes | case |
| 24 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 fine | obl |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 see | mark |
| 26 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 eyes | acl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 drew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | draw up | past | hero | a egg | a bird's nest on the side of the cliff | then | with a snare | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent egg=Theme from nest=Initial_Location | |
| 2 | see | to-infinitive | hero not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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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