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The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Maid of Beauty, sentence 82

He hewed it on this side, he shaped it on that, he smoothed it fore and aft; and the Maid of Beauty looked on and smiled.

Who acts: Minstrel, Maid · What happens: hew, shape, smooth, look on, smile · To what, where: length, side, that

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 (Minstrel, Maid), 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

nsubjobjcasedetoblpunctnsubjparataxisobjcaseoblpunctnsubjconjobjxcompccconjpunctccdetnsubjcasenmodparataxiscompound:prtccconjpunctrootHePRONhewedVERBitPRONonADPthisDETsideNOUN,PUNCThePRONshapedVERBitPRONonADPthatPRON,PUNCThePRONsmoothedVERBitPRONforeADJandCCONJaftADJ;PUNCTandCCONJtheDETMaidPROPNofADPBeautyPROPNlookedVERBonADPandCCONJsmiledVERB.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1HehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs2 hewednsubj
2hewedhewVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
3ititPRONCase=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs2 hewedobj
4ononADP_6 sidecase
5thisthisDETNumber=Sing PronType=Dem6 sidedet
6sidesideNOUNNumber=Sing2 hewedobl
7,,PUNCT_9 shapedpunct
8hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs9 shapednsubj
9shapedshapeVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin2 hewedparataxis
10ititPRONCase=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs9 shapedobj
11ononADP_12 thatcase
12thatthatPRONNumber=Sing PronType=Dem9 shapedobl
13,,PUNCT_15 smoothedpunct
14hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs15 smoothednsubj
15smoothedsmoothVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin9 shapedconj
16ititPRONCase=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs15 smoothedobj
17foreforeADJDegree=Pos15 smoothedxcomp
18andandCCONJ_19 aftcc
19aftaftADJDegree=Pos17 foreconj
20;;PUNCT_26 lookedpunct
21andandCCONJ_26 lookedcc
22thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art23 Maiddet
23MaidMaidPROPNNumber=Sing26 lookednsubj
24ofofADP_25 Beautycase
25BeautyBeautyPROPNNumber=Sing23 Maidnmod
26lookedlookVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin2 hewedparataxis
27ononADP_26 lookedcompound:prt
28andandCCONJ_29 smiledcc
29smiledsmileVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin26 lookedconj
30..PUNCT_2 hewedpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1hewpastMinstrellengththis sidevn cut-21.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
2shapepastMinstrellengththatvn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Product
3smoothpastMinstrellengthfore propertyvn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent it=Patient
4look onpastthe Maid of Beautyvn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
5smilepastthe Maid of Beauty not said herevn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=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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