The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, A Dreadful Vengeance, sentence 53

She places her stool by the side of the great brown beast; she takes the new milk-pail in her hands; she sits down; she bends forward to begin the milking.

Who acts: Anniki · What happens: take, sit down, bend, begin · To what, where: new milk pail, hands, milking, places

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 (Anniki), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 places	nsubj
2	places	place	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 stool	nmod:poss
4	stool	stool	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 places	appos
5	by	by	ADP	_	7 side	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 side	det
7	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 places	nmod
8	of	of	ADP	_	12 beast	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 beast	det
10	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 beast	amod
11	brown	brown	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 beast	amod
12	beast	beast	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 side	nmod
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 takes	punct
14	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 takes	nsubj
15	takes	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 places	conj
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 pail	det
17	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 pail	amod
18	milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 pail	compound
19	-	-	PUNCT	_	18 milk	punct
20	pail	pail	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 takes	obj
21	in	in	ADP	_	23 hands	case
22	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 hands	nmod:poss
23	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 pail	nmod
24	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 sits	punct
25	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 sits	nsubj
26	sits	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 takes	conj
27	down	down	ADP	_	26 sits	compound:prt
28	;	;	PUNCT	_	30 bends	punct
29	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 bends	nsubj
30	bends	bend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 takes	conj
31	forward	forward	ADV	_	30 bends	advmod
32	to	to	PART	_	33 begin	mark
33	begin	begin	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 bends	advcl
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 milking	det
35	milking	milking	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 begin	obj
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 places	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	take	present	Anniki	the new milk pail	Anniki's hands		vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent pail=Value in hand=Location
2	sit down	present	Anniki				vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	bend	present	Anniki			forward property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	begin	to-infinitive	Anniki not said here	the milking			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent milking=Eventuality

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 tree

Pragmatics

The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, A Dreadful Vengeance, sentence 53