The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Graybeard and His Son, sentence 7
The door was open, and the Minstrel saw a little child sitting on the hearth beside the blazing fire.
Who acts: door, Minstrel, little child · What happens: be, see, sit, blaze · To what, where: little child, hearth
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 (door, Minstrel, little child), 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 | 2 door | det |
| 2 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 open | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 open | cop |
| 4 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 saw | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 saw | cc |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Minstrel | det |
| 8 | Minstrel | Minstrel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 saw | nsubj |
| 9 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 open | conj |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 child | det |
| 11 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 child | amod |
| 12 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 saw | obj |
| 13 | sitting | sit | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 12 child | acl |
| 14 | on | on | ADP | _ | 16 hearth | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 hearth | det |
| 16 | hearth | hearth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 sitting | obl |
| 17 | beside | beside | ADP | _ | 20 fire | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 fire | det |
| 19 | blazing | blaze | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 20 fire | amod |
| 20 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 sitting | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 open | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the door | open property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | see | past | the Minstrel | a little child | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer child=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | sit | gerund | a little child not said here | the hearth | beside the blazing fire | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on hearth=Location | |||
| 4 | blaze | gerund | vn light_emission-43.1 «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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