The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Flight, sentence 26
Very beautiful was the magic mill, its resplendent sides embossed with gold and lined with silver; gorgeously beautiful was its rainbow cover, full of pictures of men and beasts and trees and flowers.
What happens: be, emboss, line · To what, where: beautiful magic mill, resplendent sides, beautiful rainbow cover
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Flight. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | Very | very | ADV | _ | 2 beautiful | advmod |
| 2 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 mill | amod |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 mill | cop |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 mill | det |
| 5 | magic | magic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 mill | compound |
| 6 | mill | mill | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 sides | punct |
| 8 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 sides | nmod:poss |
| 9 | resplendent | resplendent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 sides | amod |
| 10 | sides | side | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 mill | conj |
| 11 | embossed | emboss | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 sides | acl |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 gold | case |
| 13 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 embossed | obl |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 lined | cc |
| 15 | lined | line | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 embossed | conj |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 silver | case |
| 17 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 lined | obl |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 24 cover | punct |
| 19 | gorgeously | gorgeously | ADV | _ | 20 beautiful | advmod |
| 20 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 cover | amod |
| 21 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 cover | cop |
| 22 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 cover | nmod:poss |
| 23 | rainbow | rainbow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 cover | compound |
| 24 | cover | cover | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 mill | conj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 full | punct |
| 26 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 cover | amod |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 pictures | case |
| 28 | pictures | picture | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 full | obl |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 men | case |
| 30 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 pictures | nmod |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 beasts | cc |
| 32 | beasts | beast | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 men | conj |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 trees | cc |
| 34 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 men | conj |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 flowers | cc |
| 36 | flowers | flower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 men | conj |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 mill | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the beautiful magic mill and cave's resplendent sides and cave's beautiful rainbow cover | cave's resplendent sides conj | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | emboss | participle | cave's resplendent sides not said here | with gold | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent with gold=Theme | ||||
| 3 | line | participle | with silver | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with silver=Theme | |||||
| 4 | is a | past | cave's beautiful rainbow cover | cave nmod:poss | tree rules |
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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