The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Golden Maiden, sentence 71

And Ilmarinen stood by his magic caldron, throwing into it great handfuls of gold, smaller handfuls of silver, cakes of fine sugar from the red mountain-maple, honey and honeycomb, daisies, buttercups, wild flowers of every hue, and a hundred strange and potent articles the names of which I have not the courage to pronounce.

Who acts: Ilmarinen, I · What happens: stand, throw, have, pronounce · To what, where: strange articles, great handfuls, caldron, courage

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 (Ilmarinen, I), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	3 stood	cc
2	Ilmarinen	Ilmarinen	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 stood	nsubj
3	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	by	by	ADP	_	7 caldron	case
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 caldron	nmod:poss
6	magic	magic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 caldron	amod
7	caldron	caldron	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 stood	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 throwing	punct
9	throwing	throw	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 stood	advcl
10	into	into	ADP	_	11 it	case
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 throwing	obl
12	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 handfuls	amod
13	handfuls	handful	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 throwing	obj
14	of	of	ADP	_	15 gold	case
15	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 handfuls	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 handfuls	punct
17	smaller	small	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	18 handfuls	amod
18	handfuls	handful	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 handfuls	conj
19	of	of	ADP	_	20 silver	case
20	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 handfuls	nmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 cakes	punct
22	cakes	cake	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 handfuls	conj
23	of	of	ADP	_	25 sugar	case
24	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 sugar	amod
25	sugar	sugar	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 cakes	nmod
26	from	from	ADP	_	31 maple	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 maple	det
28	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 maple	amod
29	mountain	mountain	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 maple	compound
30	-	-	PUNCT	_	29 mountain	punct
31	maple	maple	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 throwing	obl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 honey	punct
33	honey	honey	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 maple	conj
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 honeycomb	cc
35	honeycomb	honeycomb	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 maple	conj
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 daisies	punct
37	daisies	daisy	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 throwing	obl
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 buttercups	punct
39	buttercups	buttercup	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 daisies	conj
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 flowers	punct
41	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 flowers	amod
42	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 daisies	conj
43	of	of	ADP	_	45 hue	case
44	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	45 hue	det
45	hue	hue	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 flowers	nmod
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	50 strange	punct
47	and	and	CCONJ	_	50 strange	cc
48	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	49 hundred	det
49	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	50 strange	nummod
50	strange	strange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	53 articles	amod
51	and	and	CCONJ	_	52 potent	cc
52	potent	potent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	50 strange	conj
53	articles	article	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 stood	obl
54	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	55 names	det
55	names	name	NOUN	Number=Plur	53 articles	obj
56	of	of	ADP	_	57 which	case
57	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	59 have	obl
58	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	59 have	nsubj
59	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	55 names	acl:relcl
60	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	62 courage	advmod
61	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	62 courage	det
62	courage	courage	NOUN	Number=Sing	59 have	obj
63	to	to	PART	_	64 pronounce	mark
64	pronounce	pronounce	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	62 courage	acl
65	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 stood	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	stand	past	Ilmarinen	strange articles the names		by man's magic caldron	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by caldron=Location
2	throw	gerund	Ilmarinen not said here	great handfuls of gold and smaller handfuls of silver and cakes of fine sugar	caldron	from the red mountain maple and honey and honeycomb; daisies and buttercups and wild flowers of every hue obl	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Agent handful=Theme into it=Destination from maple=Initial_Location
3	have	present	I	the courage		of the names	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent courage=Patient
4	pronounce	to-infinitive	I not said here	the courage not said here			vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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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The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Golden Maiden, sentence 71