The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Smithy, sentence 114
“Wonderful! wonderful!” cried the astonished Smith as he gazed upward at the flower-crowned tree of magic.
Who acts: astonished Smith, Smith · What happens: cry, gaze, crown
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 (astonished Smith, Smith), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 wonderful | punct |
| 2 | Wonderful | wonderful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 wonderful | amod |
| 3 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Wonderful | punct |
| 4 | wonderful | wonderful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 cried | parataxis |
| 5 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 wonderful | punct |
| 6 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 wonderful | punct |
| 7 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Smith | det |
| 9 | astonished | astonished | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 Smith | amod |
| 10 | Smith | Smith | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 cried | obj |
| 11 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 13 gazed | mark |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 gazed | nsubj |
| 13 | gazed | gaze | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 cried | advcl |
| 14 | upward | upward | ADV | _ | 13 gazed | advmod |
| 15 | at | at | ADP | _ | 20 tree | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 tree | det |
| 17 | flower | flower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 crowned | compound |
| 18 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 flower | punct |
| 19 | crowned | crown | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 tree | amod |
| 20 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 gazed | obl |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 magic | case |
| 22 | magic | magic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 tree | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cry speech: express | past | the astonished Smith | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | gaze | past | Smith | at the crowned tree of magic; upward property | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at tree=Theme | ||||
| 3 | crown | participle | flower compound | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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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