The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Golden Maiden, sentence 99
The flames died suddenly away, and out of the vessel there sprang a wonderful image—the image of a beautiful maiden.
Who acts: flames · What happens: die, spring, image · To what, where: wonderful image, vessel, beautiful maiden
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 (flames), 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 flames | det |
| 2 | flames | flame | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 died | nsubj |
| 3 | died | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | suddenly | suddenly | ADV | _ | 5 away | advmod |
| 5 | away | away | ADV | _ | 3 died | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 sprang | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 sprang | cc |
| 8 | out | out | ADP | _ | 11 vessel | case |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 vessel | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 vessel | det |
| 11 | vessel | vessel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 sprang | obl |
| 12 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 13 sprang | advmod |
| 13 | sprang | spring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 died | conj |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 image | det |
| 15 | wonderful | wonderful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 image | amod |
| 16 | image | image | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 sprang | obj |
| 17 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 19 image | punct |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 image | det |
| 19 | image | image | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 image | appos |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 maiden | case |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 maiden | det |
| 22 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 maiden | amod |
| 23 | maiden | maiden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 image | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 died | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | die | past | the flames | away property | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | spring | past | the flames not said here | a wonderful image | the vessel; there | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location image=Theme | |||
| 3 | image | a beautiful maiden | nom image «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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