The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Flight, sentence 8

With his magic needles he crossed the eyelashes of the sleepers, pinning their eyelids close together and thus holding them so that they might not waken.

Who acts: Minstrel, eyelids · What happens: cross, pin, close, hold, not waken · To what, where: eyelashes, eyelids

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: who acts (Minstrel, eyelids), 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	With	with	ADP	_	4 needles	case
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 needles	nmod:poss
3	magic	magic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 needles	amod
4	needles	needle	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 crossed	obl
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 crossed	nsubj
6	crossed	cross	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 eyelashes	det
8	eyelashes	eyelash	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 crossed	obj
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 sleepers	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 sleepers	det
11	sleepers	sleeper	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 eyelashes	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 pinning	punct
13	pinning	pin	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 crossed	advcl
14	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 eyelids	nmod:poss
15	eyelids	eyelid	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 close	nsubj
16	close	close	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 pinning	conj
17	together	together	ADV	_	16 close	advmod
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 holding	cc
19	thus	thus	ADV	_	20 holding	advmod
20	holding	hold	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 pinning	conj
21	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 holding	obj
22	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	27 waken	mark
23	that	that	SCONJ	_	22 so	fixed
24	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 waken	nsubj
25	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 waken	aux
26	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	27 waken	advmod
27	waken	waken	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 holding	advcl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 crossed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	cross	past	Minstrel	the eyelashes of the sleepers	with Minstrel's magic needles	vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eyelash=Patient
2	pin	gerund	Minstrel not said here			vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient
3	close	present	needles's eyelids		together property	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
4	hold	gerund	Minstrel not said here	eyelids = eyelid	thus property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
5	not waken	might	eyelids = eyelid			vn other_cos-45.4 «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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🌲 The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Flight, sentence 8

The tree

Pragmatics

The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Flight, sentence 8