The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Golden Maiden, sentence 134
The Minstrel, wise and steadfast, looked at the image closely, admiringly.
What happens: look · To what, where: Minstrel, image
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: 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Minstrel | det |
| 2 | Minstrel | Minstrel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 looked | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 wise | punct |
| 4 | wise | wise | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 Minstrel | appos |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 steadfast | cc |
| 6 | steadfast | steadfast | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 wise | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 looked | punct |
| 8 | looked | look | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | at | at | ADP | _ | 11 image | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 image | det |
| 11 | image | image | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 looked | obl |
| 12 | closely | closely | ADV | _ | 8 looked | advmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 admiringly | punct |
| 14 | admiringly | admiringly | ADV | _ | 8 looked | advmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | participle · passive | the Minstrel | the image | admiringly, closely property | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Attribute |
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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