The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Wicked Hornet, sentence 5
They were as lovely as the rainbow after a storm; they were as fair as the full moon shining above the mountains.
Who acts: maidens, full moon · What happens: be, shine · To what, where: mountains
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 (maidens, full moon), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 lovely | nsubj |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 lovely | cop |
| 3 | as | as | ADV | _ | 4 lovely | advmod |
| 4 | lovely | lovely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | as | as | ADP | _ | 7 rainbow | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 rainbow | det |
| 7 | rainbow | rainbow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 lovely | obl |
| 8 | after | after | ADP | _ | 10 storm | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 storm | det |
| 10 | storm | storm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 rainbow | nmod |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 fair | punct |
| 12 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 fair | nsubj |
| 13 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 fair | cop |
| 14 | as | as | ADV | _ | 15 fair | advmod |
| 15 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 lovely | conj |
| 16 | as | as | ADP | _ | 19 moon | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 moon | det |
| 18 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 moon | amod |
| 19 | moon | moon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 fair | obl |
| 20 | shining | shine | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 19 moon | acl |
| 21 | above | above | ADP | _ | 23 mountains | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 mountains | det |
| 23 | mountains | mountain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 shining | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 lovely | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | maidens = maiden | as the rainbow after a storm; lovely property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | past | maidens = maiden | as the full moon; fair property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | shine | gerund | the full moon not said here | the mountains | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme above mountain=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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