The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Golden Maiden, sentence 45
The farmhouse itself had been ransacked from kitchen to attic chamber, and not one article of ornament or use had been left untouched or unbroken.
What happens: ransack, leave, article · To what, where: farmhouse, kitchen, one article, ornament
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 farmhouse | det |
| 2 | farmhouse | farmhouse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 ransacked | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | itself | itself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes | 2 farmhouse | nmod:unmarked |
| 4 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 ransacked | aux |
| 5 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 ransacked | aux:pass |
| 6 | ransacked | ransack | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 kitchen | case |
| 8 | kitchen | kitchen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 ransacked | obl |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 chamber | case |
| 10 | attic | attic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 chamber | amod |
| 11 | chamber | chamber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 ransacked | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 article | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 article | cc |
| 14 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 one | advmod |
| 15 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 article | nummod |
| 16 | article | article | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 left | nsubj:pass |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 ornament | case |
| 18 | ornament | ornament | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 article | nmod |
| 19 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 20 use | cc |
| 20 | use | use | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 article | conj |
| 21 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 left | aux |
| 22 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 23 left | aux:pass |
| 23 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 ransacked | parataxis |
| 24 | untouched | untouched | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 left | xcomp |
| 25 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 26 unbroken | cc |
| 26 | unbroken | unbroken | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 untouched | conj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 ransacked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ransack | past · perfect · passive | the farmhouse farmhouse | kitchen | to attic chamber | vn investigate-35.4 «NP V NP.location»: subject=Location | |||
| 2 | leave | past · perfect · passive | one article of ornament or use | untouched property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 3 | article | ornament | nom article «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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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