The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, A Dreadful Vengeance, sentence 26

Methinks I see them even now, tripping lightly from the doorway, each with a sweet-smelling cedar-wood pail, and the foremost with a three-legged stool for the mistress.

Who acts: Methinks · What happens: see, trip, smell · To what, where: milkmaids, doorway

This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, A Dreadful Vengeance. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Methinks), 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	Methinks	methink	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 see	nsubj
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 see	nsubj
3	see	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 see	obj
5	even	even	ADV	_	6 now	advmod
6	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 see	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 tripping	punct
8	tripping	trip	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 see	advcl
9	lightly	lightly	ADV	_	8 tripping	advmod
10	from	from	ADP	_	12 doorway	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 doorway	det
12	doorway	doorway	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 tripping	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 each	punct
14	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	12 doorway	nmod
15	with	with	ADP	_	23 pail	case
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 pail	det
17	sweet	sweet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 pail	amod
18	-	-	PUNCT	_	17 sweet	punct
19	smelling	smell	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	23 pail	amod
20	cedar	cedar	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 wood	compound
21	-	-	PUNCT	_	20 cedar	punct
22	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 pail	compound
23	pail	pail	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 each	nmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 foremost	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 foremost	cc
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 foremost	det
27	foremost	foremost	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 see	conj
28	with	with	ADP	_	33 stool	case
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 stool	det
30	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	32 legged	nummod
31	-	-	PUNCT	_	30 three	punct
32	legged	legged	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 stool	amod
33	stool	stool	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 foremost	obl
34	for	for	ADP	_	36 mistress	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 mistress	det
36	mistress	mistress	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 stool	nmod
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 see	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	present	Methinks	milkmaids = milkmaid		now	I nsubj	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus
2	trip	gerund	Methinks not said here		the doorway each with a sweet smelling wood pail		lightly property	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from doorway=Trajectory
3	smell	gerund						vn smell_emission-43.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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🌲 The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, A Dreadful Vengeance, sentence 26

The tree

Pragmatics

The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, A Dreadful Vengeance, sentence 26