The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Smithy, sentence 4

At every turn in the road the country became more open, and little by little the forest gave way to fields.

Who acts: little forest · What happens: become, give · To what, where: turn, way, fields

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 (little forest), 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	At	at	ADP	_	3 turn	case
2	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	3 turn	det
3	turn	turn	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 became	obl
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 road	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 road	det
6	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 turn	nmod
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 country	det
8	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 road	conj
9	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	11 open	advmod
11	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 became	xcomp
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 little	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 little	cc
14	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 became	conj
15	by	by	SCONJ	_	19 gave	mark
16	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 forest	amod
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 forest	det
18	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 gave	nsubj
19	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 little	advcl
20	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 gave	obj
21	to	to	ADP	_	22 fields	case
22	fields	field	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 gave	obl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 became	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	become	past				every turn in the road and the country		open property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
2	give	past	the little forest	way	fields				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent way=Theme to field=Recipient

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 4

The tree

Pragmatics

The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Smithy, sentence 4