The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Maid of Beauty, sentence 97
He looked about for the reindeer which the Mistress had lent him and which had wandered into the woods while he was working magic.
Who acts: misfortune · What happens: look, lend, wander, work · To what, where: Mistress, woods, magic
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 (misfortune), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 looked | nsubj |
| 2 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | about | about | ADV | _ | 2 looked | advmod |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 reindeer | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 reindeer | det |
| 6 | reindeer | reindeer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 looked | obl |
| 7 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 lent | obj |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Mistress | det |
| 9 | Mistress | mistress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 lent | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 lent | aux |
| 11 | lent | lend | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 reindeer | acl:relcl |
| 12 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 lent | obj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 wandered | cc |
| 14 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 wandered | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 wandered | aux |
| 16 | wandered | wander | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 lent | conj |
| 17 | into | into | ADP | _ | 19 woods | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 woods | det |
| 19 | woods | wood | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 wandered | obl |
| 20 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 23 working | mark |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 working | nsubj |
| 22 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 working | aux |
| 23 | working | work | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 16 wandered | advcl |
| 24 | magic | magic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 working | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | past | misfortune | for the reindeer; about property | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for reindeer=Theme | ||||
| 2 | lend | past · perfect · passive | the Mistress | the reindeer obj; misfortune obj | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | wander | past · perfect · passive | the woods | which nsubj:pass | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Trajectory | ||||
| 4 | work | past · progressive | misfortune | magic | vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: agent=Agent magic=Material |
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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