The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Golden Maiden, sentence 104
Her lips were tender and sweet and red like twin cranberries meeting beneath her faultless nose, yet she tasted not, smelled nothing.
Who acts: lips, twin cranberries, heat · What happens: be, meet, not taste, smell · To what, where: nothing
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Golden Maiden. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lips, twin cranberries, heat), 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 | Her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 lips | nmod:poss |
| 2 | lips | lip | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 tender | nsubj |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 tender | cop |
| 4 | tender | tender | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 sweet | cc |
| 6 | sweet | sweet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 tender | conj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 red | cc |
| 8 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 tender | conj |
| 9 | like | like | ADP | _ | 11 cranberries | case |
| 10 | twin | twin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 cranberries | compound |
| 11 | cranberries | cranberry | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 red | obl |
| 12 | meeting | meet | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 11 cranberries | acl |
| 13 | beneath | beneath | ADP | _ | 16 nose | case |
| 14 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 nose | nmod:poss |
| 15 | faultless | faultless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 nose | amod |
| 16 | nose | nose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 meeting | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 tasted | punct |
| 18 | yet | yet | CCONJ | _ | 20 tasted | cc |
| 19 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 tasted | nsubj |
| 20 | tasted | taste | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 tender | parataxis |
| 21 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 20 tasted | advmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 smelled | punct |
| 23 | smelled | smell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 tasted | advcl |
| 24 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 23 smelled | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 tender | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | heat's lips | tender property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | heat's lips not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | be | heat's lips not said here | like twin cranberries | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | meet | gerund | twin cranberries not said here | beneath heat's faultless nose | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | not taste | past | heat | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 6 | smell | participle | heat not said here | nothing | vn see-30.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer nothing=Stimulus |
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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