The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Smithy, sentence 112

They climbed into the birchwood sledge; they sat down on the furs; they talked of this thing and of that as the reindeer drew them swiftly back towards the fen and the long causeway.

Who acts: fools, reindeer · What happens: climb, sit down, talk, draw · To what, where: birchwood sledge, furs, fools, fen

This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Smithy. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fools, reindeer), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 climbed	nsubj
2	climbed	climb	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	into	into	ADP	_	6 sledge	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 sledge	det
5	birchwood	birchwood	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sledge	compound
6	sledge	sledge	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 climbed	obl
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	9 sat	punct
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 sat	nsubj
9	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 climbed	conj
10	down	down	ADP	_	9 sat	compound:prt
11	on	on	ADP	_	13 furs	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 furs	det
13	furs	fur	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 sat	obl
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 talked	punct
15	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 talked	nsubj
16	talked	talk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 climbed	conj
17	of	of	ADP	_	19 thing	case
18	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	19 thing	det
19	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 talked	obl
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 that	cc
21	of	of	ADP	_	22 that	case
22	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	19 thing	conj
23	as	as	SCONJ	_	26 drew	mark
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 reindeer	det
25	reindeer	reindeer	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 drew	nsubj
26	drew	draw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 talked	advcl
27	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 drew	obj
28	swiftly	swiftly	ADV	_	29 back	advmod
29	back	back	ADV	_	26 drew	advmod
30	towards	towards	ADP	_	32 fen	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 fen	det
32	fen	fen	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 drew	obl
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 causeway	cc
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 causeway	det
35	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 causeway	amod
36	causeway	causeway	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 fen	conj
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 climbed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	climb	past	fools = fool		the birchwood sledge		vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into sledge=Destination
2	sit down	past	fools = fool		the furs		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on fur=Location
3	talk	past	fools = fool			of this thing of that	vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	draw	past	the reindeer	fools = fool	the fen and the long causeway		vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme towards fen=Destination

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 Smithy, sentence 112

The tree

Pragmatics

The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Smithy, sentence 112