The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, A Dreadful Vengeance, sentence 40
“But look!” suddenly cries the second milkmaid.
Who acts: you, second milkmaid · What happens: look, cry · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (you, second milkmaid), 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 | _ | 3 look | punct |
| 2 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 3 look | cc |
| 3 | look | look | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 look | punct |
| 5 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 look | punct |
| 6 | suddenly | suddenly | ADV | _ | 7 cries | advmod |
| 7 | cries | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 look | advcl |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 milkmaid | det |
| 9 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 10 milkmaid | amod |
| 10 | milkmaid | milkmaid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 cries | obj |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 look | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look in a quote | imperative | you not said here | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | cry speech: express | present | the second milkmaid | suddenly property | vn 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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