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The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Fate of the Sampo, sentence 79

Angry and despairing, she flapped her rude wings against the sides of the mill, smashing the wheels and levers and breaking the wonderful framework into a thousand pieces.

Who acts: Pohyola · What happens: despair, flap, smash, break · To what, where: rude wings, wheels, wonderful framework, thousand pieces

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 (Pohyola), 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

ccconjpunctnsubjconjnmod:possamodobjcasedetoblcasedetnmodpunctadvcldetobjccconjccconjdetamodobjcasedetnummodoblpunctrootAngryADJandCCONJdespairingVERB,PUNCTshePRONflappedVERBherPRONrudeADJwingsNOUNagainstADPtheDETsidesNOUNofADPtheDETmillNOUN,PUNCTsmashingVERBtheDETwheelsNOUNandCCONJleversNOUNandCCONJbreakingVERBtheDETwonderfulADJframeworkNOUNintoADPaDETthousandNUMpiecesNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1AngryangryADJDegree=Posrootroot
2andandCCONJ_3 despairingcc
3despairingdespairVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part1 Angryconj
4,,PUNCT_6 flappedpunct
5sheshePRONCase=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs6 flappednsubj
6flappedflapVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin1 Angryconj
7herherPRONCase=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs9 wingsnmod:poss
8ruderudeADJDegree=Pos9 wingsamod
9wingswingNOUNNumber=Plur6 flappedobj
10againstagainstADP_12 sidescase
11thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art12 sidesdet
12sidessideNOUNNumber=Plur6 flappedobl
13ofofADP_15 millcase
14thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art15 milldet
15millmillNOUNNumber=Sing12 sidesnmod
16,,PUNCT_17 smashingpunct
17smashingsmashVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part6 flappedadvcl
18thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art19 wheelsdet
19wheelswheelNOUNNumber=Plur17 smashingobj
20andandCCONJ_21 leverscc
21leversleverNOUNNumber=Plur19 wheelsconj
22andandCCONJ_23 breakingcc
23breakingbreakVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part17 smashingconj
24thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art26 frameworkdet
25wonderfulwonderfulADJDegree=Pos26 frameworkamod
26frameworkframeworkNOUNNumber=Sing23 breakingobj
27intointoADP_30 piecescase
28aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art29 thousanddet
29thousandthousandNUMNumForm=Word NumType=Card30 piecesnummod
30piecespieceNOUNNumber=Plur23 breakingobl
31..PUNCT_1 Angrypunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1despairgerundvn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2flappastPohyolaPohyola's rude wingsagainst the sides of the millvn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wing=Patient
3smashgerundPohyola not said herethe wheels and leversvn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wheel=Theme
4breakgerundPohyola not said herethe wonderful frameworkinto thousand pieces resultvn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent framework=Patient into piece=Result

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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