The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Golden Maiden, sentence 119
Then he laid her on a silken couch, put soft pillows beneath her head, and covered her with warm blankets and quilted coverlets.
Who acts: Smith · What happens: lay, put, cover, quilt · To what, where: cold, silken couch, soft pillows, head
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 (Smith), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 laid | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 laid | nsubj |
| 3 | laid | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 laid | obj |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 couch | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 couch | det |
| 7 | silken | silken | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 couch | amod |
| 8 | couch | couch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 laid | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 put | punct |
| 10 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 laid | advcl |
| 11 | soft | soft | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 pillows | amod |
| 12 | pillows | pillow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 put | obj |
| 13 | beneath | beneath | ADP | _ | 15 head | case |
| 14 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 head | nmod:poss |
| 15 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 put | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 covered | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 covered | cc |
| 18 | covered | cover | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 laid | conj |
| 19 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 covered | obj |
| 20 | with | with | ADP | _ | 22 blankets | case |
| 21 | warm | warm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 blankets | amod |
| 22 | blankets | blanket | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 covered | obl |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 coverlets | cc |
| 24 | quilted | quilt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 25 coverlets | amod |
| 25 | coverlets | coverlet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 blankets | conj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 laid | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lay | past | Smith | cold | a silken couch | then | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme on couch=Destination | ||
| 2 | put | infinitive | Smith not said here | soft pillows | cold's head | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent pillow=Theme beneath head=Destination | |||
| 3 | cover | past | Smith not said here | cold | with warm blankets and quilted coverlets | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent she=Destination with blanket=Theme | |||
| 4 | quilt | participle | tree rules |
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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