The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Tree of Magic, sentence 50

Then he sang another song quite different from the first—a song so sweet, so persuasive, that the wild creatures in the forest and the fen came out of their dens and listened to it.

Who acts: Minstrel, wild creatures · What happens: sing, come out, listen · To what, where: song, twig

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 (Minstrel, wild creatures), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 sang	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 sang	nsubj
3	sang	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	5 song	det
5	song	song	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sang	obj
6	quite	quite	ADV	_	7 different	advmod
7	different	different	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 song	amod
8	from	from	ADP	_	13 song	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 song	det
10	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	13 song	amod
11	—	-	PUNCT	_	13 song	punct
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 song	det
13	song	song	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 different	obl
14	so	so	ADV	_	15 sweet	advmod
15	sweet	sweet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 song	amod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 persuasive	punct
17	so	so	ADV	_	18 persuasive	advmod
18	persuasive	persuasive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 sang	conj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 came	punct
20	that	that	SCONJ	_	30 came	mark
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 creatures	det
22	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 creatures	amod
23	creatures	creature	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 came	nsubj
24	in	in	ADP	_	26 forest	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 forest	det
26	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 creatures	nmod
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 fen	cc
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 fen	det
29	fen	fen	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 forest	conj
30	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 sang	conj
31	out	out	ADV	_	30 came	advmod
32	of	of	ADP	_	34 dens	case
33	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 dens	nmod:poss
34	dens	den	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 out	obl
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 listened	cc
36	listened	listen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 came	conj
37	to	to	ADP	_	38 it	case
38	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 listened	obl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 sang	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	sing speech: express	past	Minstrel	another song		then		vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location song=Theme
2	come out	past	the wild creatures in the forest and the fen				out property	vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient
3	listen	past	the wild creatures in the forest and the fen not said here		twig			vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to it=Theme

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 Tree of Magic, sentence 50