The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Maid of Beauty, sentence 61
“Let me see some more of your wonderful magic.
Who acts: you, maiden · What happens: let, see · To what, where: maiden, more
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 (you, maiden), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Let | punct |
| 2 | Let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 Let | obj |
| 4 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 Let | xcomp |
| 5 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 6 more | det |
| 6 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 4 see | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 magic | case |
| 8 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 magic | nmod:poss |
| 9 | wonderful | wonderful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 magic | amod |
| 10 | magic | magic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 more | obl |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let in a quote | imperative | you not said here | maiden | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | see in a quote | infinitive | maiden not said here | some more of your wonderful magic | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer more=Stimulus |
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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