The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Golden Maiden, sentence 48
The floor of the farmhouse was reddened with blood; on every side were the marks of cruel teeth, the imprint of sharp and pitiless claws.
What happens: redden, be, imprint · To what, where: floor, marks, side, sharp claws
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 floor | det |
| 2 | floor | floor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 reddened | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 farmhouse | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 farmhouse | det |
| 5 | farmhouse | farmhouse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 floor | nmod |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 reddened | aux:pass |
| 7 | reddened | redden | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 blood | case |
| 9 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 reddened | obl |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 marks | punct |
| 11 | on | on | ADP | _ | 13 side | case |
| 12 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 13 side | det |
| 13 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 marks | obl |
| 14 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 marks | cop |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 marks | det |
| 16 | marks | mark | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 reddened | obl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 teeth | case |
| 18 | cruel | cruel | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 teeth | amod |
| 19 | teeth | tooth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 marks | nmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 imprint | punct |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 imprint | det |
| 22 | imprint | imprint | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 marks | conj |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 claws | case |
| 24 | sharp | sharp | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 claws | amod |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 pitiless | cc |
| 26 | pitiless | pitiless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 sharp | conj |
| 27 | claws | claw | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 imprint | nmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 reddened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | redden | past · passive | the floor of the farmhouse | with blood | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Patient with blood=Instrument | ||||
| 2 | is a | past | the marks and the imprint of sharp claws | every side | of cruel teeth; the imprint of sharp claws conj | tree rules | |||
| 3 | imprint | sharp claws | nom imprint «cognition 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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