The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, A Dreadful Vengeance, sentence 44
I am afraid!” whispers the third milkmaid, shrinking back into the shadows.
Who acts: I · What happens: be, whisper, shrink back · To what, where: third milkmaid, shadows · 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 (I), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 afraid | nsubj |
| 2 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 afraid | cop |
| 3 | afraid | afraid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 whispers | ccomp |
| 4 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 afraid | punct |
| 5 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 afraid | punct |
| 6 | whispers | whisper | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 milkmaid | det |
| 8 | third | third | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 9 milkmaid | amod |
| 9 | milkmaid | milkmaid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 whispers | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 shrinking | punct |
| 11 | shrinking | shrink | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 whispers | advcl |
| 12 | back | back | ADV | _ | 11 shrinking | advmod |
| 13 | into | into | ADP | _ | 15 shadows | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 shadows | det |
| 15 | shadows | shadow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 shrinking | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 whispers | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | I | afraid property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | whisper speech: assert in a quote | present | the third milkmaid | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent milkmaid=Topic | |||||
| 3 | shrink back in a quote | gerund | into the shadows result | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent into shadow=Result |
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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