The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Tree of Magic, sentence 40
On the farther side of the great fen there was a grove of pine trees, and in the midst of the grove was a green, grassy space as round as the moon and as level as the sea.
Who acts: grove · What happens: be · To what, where: farther side, green grassy space, midst
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Tree of Magic. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (grove), 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 4 side | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 side | det |
| 3 | farther | far | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 4 side | amod |
| 4 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 was | obl |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 fen | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 fen | det |
| 7 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 fen | amod |
| 8 | fen | fen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 side | nmod |
| 9 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 10 was | expl |
| 10 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 grove | det |
| 12 | grove | grove | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 was | nsubj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 trees | case |
| 14 | pine | pine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 trees | compound |
| 15 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 grove | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 space | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 space | cc |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 midst | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 midst | det |
| 20 | midst | midst | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 space | obl |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 grove | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 grove | det |
| 23 | grove | grove | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 midst | nmod |
| 24 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 space | cop |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 space | det |
| 26 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 space | amod |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 green | punct |
| 28 | grassy | grassy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 space | amod |
| 29 | space | space | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 grove | conj |
| 30 | as | as | ADV | _ | 31 round | advmod |
| 31 | round | round | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 space | amod |
| 32 | as | as | ADP | _ | 34 moon | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 moon | det |
| 34 | moon | moon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 round | obl |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 level | cc |
| 36 | as | as | ADP | _ | 37 level | case |
| 37 | level | level | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 moon | conj |
| 38 | as | as | ADP | _ | 40 sea | case |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 sea | det |
| 40 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 round | obl |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 was | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | a grove of pine trees and a green grassy space | the farther side of the great fen; there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on side=Location | ||||
| 2 | is a | past | a grove of pine trees and a green grassy space not said here | a green grassy space | the midst of the grove | 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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