The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Triumph of Music, sentence 16
A faint, musical sound, far away, came to her ears.
Who acts: faint musical sound · What happens: come · To what, where: ears
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Triumph of Music. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (faint musical sound), 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 | 5 sound | det |
| 2 | faint | faint | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 sound | amod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 faint | punct |
| 4 | musical | musical | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 sound | amod |
| 5 | sound | sound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 came | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 away | punct |
| 7 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 8 away | advmod |
| 8 | away | away | ADV | _ | 5 sound | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 sound | punct |
| 10 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 ears | case |
| 12 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 ears | nmod:poss |
| 13 | ears | ear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 came | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | a faint musical sound | sound's ears | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to ear=Initial_Location |
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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