The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Wicked Hornet, sentence 109

Then, when the metal was glowing again, he laid it on the anvil and beat it with strong, swift strokes; and as he worked he sang:

Who acts: metal, Smith · What happens: glow, lay, beat, work, sing · To what, where: metal, anvil

This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Wicked Hornet. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (metal, Smith), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	11 laid	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Then	punct
3	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	7 glowing	advmod
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 metal	det
5	metal	metal	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 glowing	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 glowing	aux
7	glowing	glow	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 laid	advcl
8	again	again	ADV	_	7 glowing	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 glowing	punct
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 laid	nsubj
11	laid	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 laid	obj
13	on	on	ADP	_	15 anvil	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 anvil	det
15	anvil	anvil	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 laid	obl
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 beat	cc
17	beat	beat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 laid	conj
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 beat	obj
19	with	with	ADP	_	23 strokes	case
20	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 strokes	amod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 strong	punct
22	swift	swift	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 strokes	amod
23	strokes	stroke	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 beat	obl
24	;	;	PUNCT	_	28 worked	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 worked	cc
26	as	as	SCONJ	_	28 worked	mark
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 worked	nsubj
28	worked	work	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 laid	conj
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 sang	nsubj
30	sang	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 worked	ccomp
31	:	:	PUNCT	_	11 laid	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	glow	past · progressive	the metal			again		vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	lay	past	Smith	metal	the anvil	then		vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme on anvil=Destination
3	beat	infinitive	Smith not said here	metal			with strong swift strokes	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent it=Patient with stroke=Instrument
4	work	past	Smith					vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
5	sing speech: express	past	Smith					vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location

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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🌲 The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Wicked Hornet, sentence 109

The tree

Pragmatics

The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Wicked Hornet, sentence 109