The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Maid of Beauty, sentence 84
It broke the fairy boat in pieces, undoing the work of many days.
Who acts: grasp, many days · What happens: break, undo, work · To what, where: fairy boat, pieces, work
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 (grasp, many days), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 broke | nsubj |
| 2 | broke | break | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 boat | det |
| 4 | fairy | fairy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 boat | amod |
| 5 | boat | boat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 broke | obj |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 pieces | case |
| 7 | pieces | piece | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 broke | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 undoing | punct |
| 9 | undoing | undo | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 broke | advcl |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 work | det |
| 11 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 undoing | obj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 days | case |
| 13 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 days | amod |
| 14 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 work | nmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 broke | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | break | past | grasp | the fairy boat | pieces | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer boat=Patient | |||
| 2 | undo | gerund | grasp not said here | the work of many days | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent work=Patient | ||||
| 3 | work | many days | nom work «act intransitive»: of=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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