The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Wicked Hornet, sentence 17

And on the morrow, where the red milk had been sprinkled, red and brittle ore of iron flecked the ground; where the white milk had been scattered, powdery ore of a yellow hue abounded; and where the blue milk had been showered, flaky masses of crude iron, tough and dark, lay hidden beneath the soil.

What happens: sprinkle, fleck, scatter, abound, shower, lay · To what, where: red milk, ground, morrow, white milk, yellow hue, blue milk

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	And	and	CCONJ	_	20 flecked	cc
2	on	on	ADP	_	4 morrow	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 morrow	det
4	morrow	morrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 flecked	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 sprinkled	punct
6	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	12 sprinkled	advmod
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 milk	det
8	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 milk	amod
9	milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 sprinkled	nsubj:pass
10	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 sprinkled	aux
11	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	12 sprinkled	aux:pass
12	sprinkled	sprinkle	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 morrow	acl:relcl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 ore	punct
14	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 ore	amod
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 brittle	cc
16	brittle	brittle	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 red	conj
17	ore	ore	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 sprinkled	conj
18	of	of	ADP	_	19 iron	case
19	iron	iron	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 ore	nmod
20	flecked	fleck	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 ground	det
22	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 flecked	obj
23	;	;	PUNCT	_	30 scattered	punct
24	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	30 scattered	advmod
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 milk	det
26	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 milk	amod
27	milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 scattered	nsubj:pass
28	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 scattered	aux
29	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	30 scattered	aux:pass
30	scattered	scatter	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 flecked	conj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 ore	punct
32	powdery	powdery	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 ore	amod
33	ore	ore	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 scattered	obl
34	of	of	ADP	_	37 hue	case
35	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 hue	det
36	yellow	yellow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 hue	amod
37	hue	hue	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 ore	nmod
38	abounded	abound	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	37 hue	acl
39	;	;	PUNCT	_	47 showered	punct
40	and	and	CCONJ	_	47 showered	cc
41	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	47 showered	advmod
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 milk	det
43	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	44 milk	amod
44	milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 showered	nsubj:pass
45	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	47 showered	aux
46	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	47 showered	aux:pass
47	showered	shower	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 flecked	parataxis
48	,	,	PUNCT	_	50 masses	punct
49	flaky	flaky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	50 masses	amod
50	masses	mass	NOUN	Number=Plur	47 showered	obl
51	of	of	ADP	_	53 iron	case
52	crude	crude	ADJ	Degree=Pos	53 iron	amod
53	iron	iron	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 masses	nmod
54	,	,	PUNCT	_	55 tough	punct
55	tough	tough	ADJ	Degree=Pos	53 iron	amod
56	and	and	CCONJ	_	57 dark	cc
57	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	55 tough	conj
58	,	,	PUNCT	_	59 lay	punct
59	lay	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	55 tough	conj
60	hidden	hide	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	59 lay	xcomp
61	beneath	beneath	ADP	_	63 soil	case
62	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	63 soil	det
63	soil	soil	NOUN	Number=Sing	60 hidden	obl
64	.	.	PUNCT	_	20 flecked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	sprinkle	past · perfect · passive	the red milk		red ore of iron conj	vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=Theme
2	fleck	past	the ground	the morrow		vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme ground=Destination
3	scatter	past · perfect · passive	the white milk		powdery ore of a yellow hue obl	vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=Theme
4	abound	participle	a yellow hue not said here			vn swarm-47.5.1-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme
5	shower	past · perfect · passive	the blue milk		flaky masses of crude iron obl	vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
6	lay	present				tree rules
7	hide	participle		the soil		vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent beneath soil=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 17