The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Graybeard and His Son, sentence 92
For three sunny days and three lonely nights the youth stood over the furnace and stirred the magic mixture.
Who acts: youth · What happens: stand, stir · To what, where: furnace, magic mixture
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 (youth), 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 | For | for | ADP | _ | 4 days | case |
| 2 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 days | nummod |
| 3 | sunny | sunny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 days | amod |
| 4 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 stood | obl |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 nights | cc |
| 6 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 nights | nummod |
| 7 | lonely | lonely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 nights | amod |
| 8 | nights | night | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 days | conj |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 youth | det |
| 10 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 stood | nsubj |
| 11 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | over | over | ADP | _ | 14 furnace | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 furnace | det |
| 14 | furnace | furnace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 stood | obl |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 stirred | cc |
| 16 | stirred | stir | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 stood | conj |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 mixture | det |
| 18 | magic | magic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 mixture | amod |
| 19 | mixture | mixture | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 stirred | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past | the youth | the furnace | day | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent over furnace=Location | |||
| 2 | stir | past | the youth not said here | the magic mixture | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus mixture=Experiencer |
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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