The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Golden Maiden, sentence 86
A child might have liked it as a plaything, but a hero delights not in useless toys.
Who acts: hero · What happens: like, not delight · To what, where: child, useless toys
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 (hero), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 child | det |
| 2 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 liked | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 liked | aux |
| 4 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 liked | aux |
| 5 | liked | like | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 liked | obj |
| 7 | as | as | ADP | _ | 9 plaything | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 plaything | det |
| 9 | plaything | plaything | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 liked | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 delights | punct |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 delights | cc |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 hero | det |
| 13 | hero | hero | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 delights | nsubj |
| 14 | delights | delight | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 liked | conj |
| 15 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 delights | advmod |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 toys | case |
| 17 | useless | useless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 toys | amod |
| 18 | toys | toy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 delights | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 liked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | like | might · perfect · passive | a child | as a plaything; pleasure obj | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not delight | present | a hero | useless toys | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
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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