The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Triumph of Music, sentence 2
She looked out and saw that which made her wrinkled, uncanny face beam with joy.
Who acts: Dame · What happens: look out, see, make, wrinkle · To what, where: Dame, uncanny face beam · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Dame), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 looked | nsubj |
| 2 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | out | out | ADP | _ | 2 looked | compound:prt |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 saw | cc |
| 5 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 looked | conj |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 made | mark |
| 7 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 made | nsubj |
| 8 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 saw | ccomp |
| 9 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 made | obj |
| 10 | wrinkled | wrinkle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 made | xcomp |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 beam | punct |
| 12 | uncanny | uncanny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 beam | amod |
| 13 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 beam | compound |
| 14 | beam | beam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 wrinkled | obl |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 joy | case |
| 16 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 beam | nmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look out | past | Dame | vn caring-75.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | see | past | Dame not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | make | past | Dame | which nsubj | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | wrinkle | participle | Dame not said here | uncanny face beam with joy | vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=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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