The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Wicked Hornet, sentence 68
And bashful, bashful Iron turned first red and then white, and finally became as soft as dough and as radiant as the sun.
Who acts: bashful Iron · What happens: turn, become
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 (bashful Iron), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 turned | cc |
| 2 | bashful | bashful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 Iron | amod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 bashful | punct |
| 4 | bashful | bashful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 bashful | conj |
| 5 | Iron | Iron | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 turned | nsubj |
| 6 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 6 turned | advmod |
| 8 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 turned | xcomp |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 white | cc |
| 10 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 11 white | advmod |
| 11 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 red | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 became | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 became | cc |
| 14 | finally | finally | ADV | _ | 15 became | advmod |
| 15 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 turned | conj |
| 16 | as | as | ADV | _ | 17 soft | advmod |
| 17 | soft | soft | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 became | xcomp |
| 18 | as | as | ADP | _ | 19 dough | case |
| 19 | dough | dough | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 soft | obl |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 radiant | cc |
| 21 | as | as | ADV | _ | 22 radiant | advmod |
| 22 | radiant | radiant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 soft | conj |
| 23 | as | as | ADP | _ | 25 sun. | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 sun. | det |
| 25 | sun. | sun. | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 radiant | obl |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn | past | bashful Iron | first, red property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | become | past | bashful Iron not said here | finally, soft property | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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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