The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Wicked Hornet, sentence 82
It buzzed around the smithy and then lit on a clover blossom by the door.
Who acts: honeybee · What happens: buzz, lit · To what, where: smithy, clover blossom
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 (honeybee), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 buzzed | nsubj |
| 2 | buzzed | buzz | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | around | around | ADP | _ | 5 smithy | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 smithy | det |
| 5 | smithy | smithy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 buzzed | obl |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 lit | cc |
| 7 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 8 lit | advmod |
| 8 | lit | lit | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 buzzed | conj |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 blossom | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 blossom | det |
| 11 | clover | clover | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 blossom | compound |
| 12 | blossom | blossom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 lit | obl |
| 13 | by | by | ADP | _ | 15 door | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 door | det |
| 15 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 lit | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 buzzed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | buzz | past | honeybee | the smithy | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme around smithy=Location | ||||
| 2 | lit | participle | honeybee not said here | a clover blossom | then | by the door | tree rules |
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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