The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Wicked Hornet, sentence 26
Iron was so terrified that he turned and fled down the steep slopes, never stopping nor pausing to look behind.
Who acts: Iron, Water · What happens: be, turn, flee down, not stop, pause, look · To what, where: steep slopes
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 (Iron, 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 | Iron | iron | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 terrified | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 terrified | cop |
| 3 | so | so | ADV | _ | 4 terrified | advmod |
| 4 | terrified | terrified | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 7 turned | mark |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 turned | nsubj |
| 7 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 terrified | advcl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 fled | cc |
| 9 | fled | flee | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 turned | conj |
| 10 | down | down | ADP | _ | 9 fled | compound:prt |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 slopes | det |
| 12 | steep | steep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 slopes | amod |
| 13 | slopes | slope | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 fled | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 stopping | punct |
| 15 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 16 stopping | advmod |
| 16 | stopping | stop | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 terrified | advcl |
| 17 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 18 pausing | cc |
| 18 | pausing | pause | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 16 stopping | conj |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 look | mark |
| 20 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 pausing | xcomp |
| 21 | behind | behind | ADV | _ | 20 look | advmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 terrified | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Iron | terrified property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | turn | past | Water | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | flee down | past | Water not said here | the steep slopes | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme slope=Initial_Location | ||||
| 4 | not stop | gerund | Iron not said here | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||||
| 5 | pause | gerund | Iron not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | look | to-infinitive | Iron not said here | behind property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
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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