The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Graybeard and His Son, sentence 51
His son ran quickly and fetched a golden goblet; but it was far too small to hold the gushing flood.
Who acts: son, goblet · What happens: run, fetch, be, hold, gush · To what, where: golden goblet, gushing flood
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Graybeard and His Son. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (son, goblet), 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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 son | nmod:poss |
| 2 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 ran | nsubj |
| 3 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | quickly | quickly | ADV | _ | 3 ran | advmod |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 fetched | cc |
| 6 | fetched | fetch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 ran | conj |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 goblet | det |
| 8 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 goblet | amod |
| 9 | goblet | goblet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 fetched | obj |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 small | punct |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 small | cc |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 small | nsubj |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 small | cop |
| 14 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 16 small | advmod |
| 15 | too | too | ADV | _ | 16 small | advmod |
| 16 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 ran | parataxis |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 hold | mark |
| 18 | hold | hold | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 small | advcl |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 flood | det |
| 20 | gushing | gush | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 21 flood | amod |
| 21 | flood | flood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 hold | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 ran | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run | past | Minstrel's son | quickly property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | fetch | past | Minstrel's son not said here | a golden goblet | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent goblet=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is | past | goblet | far, small property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | hold | to-infinitive | goblet not said here | the gushing flood | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flood=Theme | ||||
| 5 | gush | gerund | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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