The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Fate of the Sampo, sentence 14

With one foot in the sea and the other firmly placed in the rift of the icy barrier, she quickly changed her form into that of a monstrous gyrfalcon, the fiercest, the most untiring of birds of prey.

Who acts: other, Mistress · What happens: place, change, form · To what, where: rift, form, that, untiring

This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Fate of the Sampo. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (other, Mistress), 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	_	3 foot	case
2	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 foot	nummod
3	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 changed	obl
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 sea	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 sea	det
6	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 foot	nmod
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 placed	cc
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 other	det
9	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 placed	nsubj
10	firmly	firmly	ADV	_	11 placed	advmod
11	placed	place	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 sea	conj
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 rift	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 rift	det
14	rift	rift	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 placed	obl
15	of	of	ADP	_	18 barrier	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 barrier	det
17	icy	icy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 barrier	amod
18	barrier	barrier	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 rift	nmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 foot	punct
20	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 changed	nsubj
21	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	22 changed	advmod
22	changed	change	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 fiercest	advcl
23	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 form	nmod:poss
24	form	form	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 changed	obj
25	into	into	ADP	_	26 that	case
26	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	22 changed	obl
27	of	of	ADP	_	30 gyrfalcon	case
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 gyrfalcon	det
29	monstrous	monstrous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 gyrfalcon	amod
30	gyrfalcon	gyrfalcon	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 that	nmod
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 fiercest	punct
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 fiercest	det
33	fiercest	fierce	ADJ	Degree=Sup	37 untiring	punct
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 untiring	punct
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 untiring	det
36	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	37 untiring	advmod
37	untiring	untiring	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
38	of	of	ADP	_	39 birds	case
39	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 untiring	nmod
40	of	of	ADP	_	41 prey	case
41	prey	prey	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 birds	nmod
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	37 untiring	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	place	participle	the other		the rift of the icy barrier	firmly property	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in rift=Destination
2	change	past	Mistress	Mistress's form	that of a monstrous gyrfalcon	with one foot in the sea; quickly property	vn exchange-13.6.1 «NP V NP PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent form=Theme with foot=Co-Agent
4	form		Mistress				nom form «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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 Fate of the Sampo, sentence 14

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The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Fate of the Sampo, sentence 14