The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Golden Maiden, sentence 74
The bellows ceased blowing, the fire was fast dying down.
Who acts: bellows, fire · What happens: cease, blow, be, die down
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 (bellows, fire), 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 bellows | det |
| 2 | bellows | bellow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 ceased | nsubj |
| 3 | ceased | cease | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | blowing | blow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 ceased | xcomp |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 fast | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 fire | det |
| 7 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 fast | nsubj |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 fast | cop |
| 9 | fast | fast | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 ceased | parataxis |
| 10 | dying | die | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 fast | advcl |
| 11 | down | down | ADV | _ | 10 dying | advmod |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 ceased | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cease | past | the bellows | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | blow | gerund | the bellows not said here | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 3 | is | past | the fire | fast property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | die down | gerund | the fire not said here | down property | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
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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