The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Wicked Hornet, sentence 89

Under the eaves above the smithy door an idler was sitting—a mischief-making hornet who heard every word that the Smith said.

Who acts: idler, making hornet, Smith · What happens: sit, make, hear, say · To what, where: making hornet, eaves, word · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (idler, making hornet, Smith), 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	Under	under	ADP	_	3 eaves	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 eaves	det
3	eaves	eave	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 sitting	obl
4	above	above	ADP	_	7 door	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 door	det
6	smithy	smithy	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 door	compound
7	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 eaves	nmod
8	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 idler	det
9	idler	idler	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 sitting	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 sitting	aux
11	sitting	sit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
12	—	-	PUNCT	_	17 hornet	punct
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 hornet	det
14	mischief	mischief	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 making	compound
15	-	-	PUNCT	_	14 mischief	punct
16	making	make	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	17 hornet	amod
17	hornet	hornet	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 sitting	obl
18	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 heard	nsubj
19	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 hornet	acl:relcl
20	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	21 word	det
21	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 heard	obj
22	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	25 said	obj
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 Smith	det
24	Smith	Smith	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 said	nsubj
25	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 word	acl:relcl
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 sitting	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	sit	past · progressive	a idler	a making hornet	the eaves above the smithy door		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent under eave=Location
2	make	gerund				mischief compound	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset
3	hear	past	a making hornet	every word			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer word=Stimulus
4	say speech: assert	past	the Smith	every word			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent that=Topic

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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🌲 The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Wicked Hornet, sentence 89

The tree

Pragmatics

The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Wicked Hornet, sentence 89