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The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Golden Maiden, sentence 154

Back to his smithy he carried the golden image; he thrust it into his furnace; he watched it melt and disappear in the terrible heat.

Who acts: body, image · What happens: carry, thrust, watch, melt, disappear · To what, where: golden image, image, furnace, terrible heat

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 (body, image), 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

advmodcasenmod:possoblnsubjdetamodobjpunctnsubjconjobjcasenmod:possoblpunctnsubjconjobjxcompccconjcasedetamodoblpunctrootBackADVtoADPhisPRONsmithyNOUNhePRONcarriedVERBtheDETgoldenADJimageNOUN;PUNCThePRONthrustVERBitPRONintoADPhisPRONfurnaceNOUN;PUNCThePRONwatchedVERBitPRONmeltVERBandCCONJdisappearVERBinADPtheDETterribleADJheatNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1BackbackADV_6 carriedadvmod
2totoADP_4 smithycase
3hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs4 smithynmod:poss
4smithysmithyNOUNNumber=Sing1 Backobl
5hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs6 carriednsubj
6carriedcarryVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
7thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art9 imagedet
8goldengoldenADJDegree=Pos9 imageamod
9imageimageNOUNNumber=Sing6 carriedobj
10;;PUNCT_12 thrustpunct
11hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs12 thrustnsubj
12thrustthrustVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin6 carriedconj
13ititPRONCase=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs12 thrustobj
14intointoADP_16 furnacecase
15hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs16 furnacenmod:poss
16furnacefurnaceNOUNNumber=Sing12 thrustobl
17;;PUNCT_19 watchedpunct
18hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs19 watchednsubj
19watchedwatchVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin6 carriedconj
20ititPRONCase=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs19 watchedobj
21meltmeltVERBVerbForm=Inf19 watchedxcomp
22andandCCONJ_23 disappearcc
23disappeardisappearVERBVerbForm=Inf21 meltconj
24ininADP_27 heatcase
25thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art27 heatdet
26terribleterribleADJDegree=Pos27 heatamod
27heatheatNOUNNumber=Sing23 disappearobl
28..PUNCT_6 carriedpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1carrypastbodythe golden imagevn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent image=Theme
2thrustpastbodyimagebody's furnacevn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
3watchpastbodyimagetree rules
4meltinfinitiveimage not said herevn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
5disappearinfinitiveimage not said herethe terrible heatvn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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