The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Tree of Magic, sentence 57
His sharp gray eyes looked first this way and then that; his ears were open to the slightest sound; all his senses were alert.
Who acts: sharp gray eyes, ears, senses · What happens: look, be · To what, where: way
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 (sharp gray eyes, ears, senses), 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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 2 | sharp | sharp | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 eyes | amod |
| 3 | gray | gray | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 eyes | compound |
| 4 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 looked | nsubj |
| 5 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 5 looked | advmod |
| 7 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 way | det |
| 8 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 looked | obl:unmarked |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 that | cc |
| 10 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 11 that | advmod |
| 11 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 way | conj |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 open | punct |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 ears | nmod:poss |
| 14 | ears | ear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 open | nsubj |
| 15 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 open | cop |
| 16 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 looked | parataxis |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 sound | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 sound | det |
| 19 | slightest | slight | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 20 sound | amod |
| 20 | sound | sound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 open | obl |
| 21 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 26 alert | punct |
| 22 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 24 senses | det:predet |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 senses | nmod:poss |
| 24 | senses | sens | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 alert | nsubj |
| 25 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 alert | cop |
| 26 | alert | alert | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 looked | conj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | past | wizard's sharp gray eyes | this way that | first property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | is | past | wizard's ears | to the slightest sound; open property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is | past | wizard's senses | alert property | 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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