The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Wicked Hornet, sentence 25
The terrible fellow leaped and roared, and stretched out his long red fingers as though he would devour his visitor.
Who acts: Water · What happens: leap, roar, stretch out, devour · To what, where: terrible fellow, long red fingers, visitor
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 (Water), 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 | 3 fellow | det |
| 2 | terrible | terrible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 fellow | amod |
| 3 | fellow | fellow | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | leaped | leap | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 fellow | acl |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 roared | cc |
| 6 | roared | roar | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 leaped | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 stretched | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 stretched | cc |
| 9 | stretched | stretch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 fellow | conj |
| 10 | out | out | ADP | _ | 9 stretched | compound:prt |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 fingers | nmod:poss |
| 12 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 fingers | amod |
| 13 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 fingers | amod |
| 14 | fingers | finger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 stretched | obj |
| 15 | as | as | ADV | _ | 19 devour | advmod |
| 16 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 19 devour | mark |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 devour | nsubj |
| 18 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 devour | aux |
| 19 | devour | devour | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 stretched | advcl |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 visitor | nmod:poss |
| 21 | visitor | visitor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 devour | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 fellow | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leap | participle | the terrible fellow not said here | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | roar | participle | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | stretch out | participle | Water's long red fingers | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent finger=Patient | |||||
| 4 | devour | would | Water | Water's visitor | vn devour-39.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent visitor=Patient |
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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