The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Wicked Hornet, sentence 115
Forthwith, Iron leaped up, angry and biting and fierce.
What happens: leap up, bite
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: 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 | Forthwith | forthwith | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 leaped | punct |
| 3 | Iron | Iron | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 leaped | compound |
| 4 | leaped | leap | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 Forthwith | conj |
| 5 | up | up | ADP | _ | 4 leaped | compound:prt |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 angry | punct |
| 7 | angry | angry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 leaped | parataxis |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 biting | cc |
| 9 | biting | bite | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 angry | conj |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 fierce | cc |
| 11 | fierce | fierce | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 angry | conj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Forthwith | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leap up | participle | Iron compound | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | bite | gerund | vn swat-18.2 «NP V PP»: agent=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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