The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Fate of the Sampo, sentence 8
The magic spell of the Minstrel’s small bit of tinder had done its work.
Who acts: magic spell, spell · What happens: do, work · To what, where: work
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 (magic spell, spell), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 spell | det |
| 2 | magic | magic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 spell | amod |
| 3 | spell | spell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 done | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 bit | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Minstrel | det |
| 6 | Minstrel | Minstrel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 bit | nmod:poss |
| 7 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 6 Minstrel | case |
| 8 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 bit | amod |
| 9 | bit | bit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 done | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 tinder | case |
| 11 | tinder | tinder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 bit | nmod |
| 12 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 done | aux |
| 13 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 14 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 work | nmod:poss |
| 15 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 done | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 done | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past · perfect | the magic spell | spell's work | of the Minstrel's small bit of tinder | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent work=Eventuality | |||
| 2 | work | spell | nom work «act intransitive»: 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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