The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Golden Maiden, sentence 64
With much care he prepared his furnace, and in the midst of it he set a magic caldron, large and round and deep.
Who acts: Beauty · What happens: prepare, set · To what, where: furnace, magic caldron, midst
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 (Beauty), 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 | With | with | ADP | _ | 3 care | case |
| 2 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 care | amod |
| 3 | care | care | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 prepared | obl |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 prepared | nsubj |
| 5 | prepared | prepare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 furnace | nmod:poss |
| 7 | furnace | furnace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 prepared | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 set | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 set | cc |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 midst | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 midst | det |
| 12 | midst | midst | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 set | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 it | case |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 midst | nmod |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 set | nsubj |
| 16 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 prepared | conj |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 caldron | det |
| 18 | magic | magic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 caldron | amod |
| 19 | caldron | caldron | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 set | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 large | punct |
| 21 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 caldron | amod |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 round | cc |
| 23 | round | round | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 large | conj |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 deep | cc |
| 25 | deep | deep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 large | conj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 prepared | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | prepare | past | Beauty | Beauty's furnace | with much care | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent furnace=Patient with care=Instrument | |||
| 2 | set | past | Beauty | a magic caldron | the midst of midst | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent caldron=Theme in midst=Destination |
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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