The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Wicked Hornet, sentence 40
The Smith heaped live coals in his forge and blew with his bellows until the flames leaped up, roaring and sparkling, and the smoke rose in dense clouds over the roof of the smithy.
Who acts: Smith, flames, smoke · What happens: heap, blow, leap up, roar, sparkle, rise · To what, where: live coals, forge, dense clouds
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 (Smith, flames, smoke), 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 | 2 Smith | det |
| 2 | Smith | Smith | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 heaped | nsubj |
| 3 | heaped | heap | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | live | live | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 coals | amod |
| 5 | coals | coal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 heaped | obj |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 forge | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 forge | nmod:poss |
| 8 | forge | forge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 heaped | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 blew | cc |
| 10 | blew | blow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 heaped | conj |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 bellows | case |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 bellows | nmod:poss |
| 13 | bellows | bellow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 blew | obl |
| 14 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 17 leaped | mark |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 flames | det |
| 16 | flames | flame | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 leaped | nsubj |
| 17 | leaped | leap | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 10 blew | advcl |
| 18 | up | up | ADP | _ | 17 leaped | compound:prt |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 roaring | punct |
| 20 | roaring | roar | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 leaped | advcl |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 sparkling | cc |
| 22 | sparkling | sparkle | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 20 roaring | conj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 rose | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 rose | cc |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 smoke | det |
| 26 | smoke | smoke | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 rose | nsubj |
| 27 | rose | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 heaped | conj |
| 28 | in | in | ADP | _ | 30 clouds | case |
| 29 | dense | dense | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 clouds | amod |
| 30 | clouds | cloud | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 rose | obl |
| 31 | over | over | ADP | _ | 33 roof | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 roof | det |
| 33 | roof | roof | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 rose | obl |
| 34 | of | of | ADP | _ | 36 smithy | case |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 smithy | det |
| 36 | smithy | smithy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 roof | nmod |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 heaped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | heap | past | the Smith | live coals | Smith's forge | vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent coal=Theme in forge=Destination | |||
| 2 | blow | past | the Smith not said here | with Smith's bellows | vn weather-57 «It V PP.theme»: with bellow=Theme | ||||
| 3 | leap up | participle | the flames | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | roar | gerund | the flames not said here | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | sparkle | gerund | the flames not said here | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | rise | past | the smoke | dense clouds | over the roof of the smithy | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in cloud=Location | |||
| 7 | bellow | Smith | nom bellow «communication intransitive»: poss=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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