The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Wicked Hornet, sentence 47
His eyes danced merrily, and he sang a song of magic to the timid metal:
Who acts: eyes, Smith, magic · What happens: dance, sing · To what, where: song, timid metal
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 (eyes, Smith, magic), 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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 2 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 danced | nsubj |
| 3 | danced | dance | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | merrily | merrily | ADV | _ | 3 danced | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 sang | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 sang | cc |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 sang | nsubj |
| 8 | sang | sing | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 danced | conj |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 song | det |
| 10 | song | song | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 sang | obj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 magic | case |
| 12 | magic | magic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 song | nmod |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 metal | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 metal | det |
| 15 | timid | timid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 metal | amod |
| 16 | metal | metal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 sang | obl |
| 17 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 3 danced | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dance | past | Smith's eyes | merrily property | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | sing speech: express | past | Smith | a song of magic | the timid metal | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent song=Topic to metal=Recipient | |||
| 3 | sing | magic | nom song «communication intransitive»: of=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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