The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Smithy, sentence 113
The road seemed short to both, and both were surprised when they found themselves in the grove of pine trees beside the green and magic circle.
Who acts: road, both, fools · What happens: seem, be, find · To what, where: fools, grove
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 (road, both, fools), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 road | det |
| 2 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 seemed | nsubj |
| 3 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 seemed | xcomp |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 both | case |
| 6 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 short | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 surprised | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 surprised | cc |
| 9 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 11 surprised | nsubj |
| 10 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 surprised | cop |
| 11 | surprised | surprised | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 seemed | parataxis |
| 12 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 14 found | advmod |
| 13 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 found | nsubj |
| 14 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 surprised | advcl |
| 15 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 14 found | obj |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 grove | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 grove | det |
| 18 | grove | grove | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 found | obl |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 trees | case |
| 20 | pine | pine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 trees | compound |
| 21 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 grove | nmod |
| 22 | beside | beside | ADP | _ | 27 circle | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 circle | det |
| 24 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 circle | amod |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 magic | cc |
| 26 | magic | magic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 green | conj |
| 27 | circle | circle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 trees | nmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 seemed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seem | past | the road | short property | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is | past | both | surprised property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | find | past | fools = fool | fools = fool | the grove of pine trees beside the green circle | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent themselves=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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