The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Smithy, sentence 83
Her face is fairer than the moonlight on a midsummer eve; her eyes are like two suns; her lips are like twin berries, red and luscious; her voice is sweeter than the song of the meadow lark.
Who acts: face, eyes, lips, voice, meadow lark · What happens: be, sing
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 (face, eyes, lips, voice), 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 | Her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 face | nmod:poss |
| 2 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 fairer | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 fairer | cop |
| 4 | fairer | fair | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| 5 | than | than | ADP | _ | 7 moonlight | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 moonlight | det |
| 7 | moonlight | moonlight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 fairer | obl |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 eve | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 eve | det |
| 10 | midsummer | midsummer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 eve | compound |
| 11 | eve | eve | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 moonlight | nmod |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 suns | punct |
| 13 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 14 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 suns | nsubj |
| 15 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 suns | cop |
| 16 | like | like | ADP | _ | 18 suns | case |
| 17 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 18 suns | nummod |
| 18 | suns | sun | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 fairer | obl |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 25 berries | punct |
| 20 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 lips | nmod:poss |
| 21 | lips | lip | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 berries | nsubj |
| 22 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 berries | cop |
| 23 | like | like | ADP | _ | 25 berries | case |
| 24 | twin | twin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 berries | compound |
| 25 | berries | berry | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 suns | nmod |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 red | punct |
| 27 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 berries | conj |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 luscious | cc |
| 29 | luscious | luscious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 red | conj |
| 30 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 34 sweeter | punct |
| 31 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 voice | nmod:poss |
| 32 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 sweeter | nsubj |
| 33 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 34 sweeter | cop |
| 34 | sweeter | sweet | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 4 fairer | conj |
| 35 | than | than | ADP | _ | 37 song | case |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 song | det |
| 37 | song | song | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 sweeter | obl |
| 38 | of | of | ADP | _ | 41 lark | case |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 lark | det |
| 40 | meadow | meadow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 lark | compound |
| 41 | lark | lark | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 song | nmod |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 fairer | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | maiden's face | than the moonlight on a midsummer eve; fair property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | present | maiden's eyes | like two suns | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is | present | maiden's lips | like twin berries | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | be | maiden's lips not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 5 | is | present | maiden's voice | than the song of the meadow lark; sweet property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | sing | the meadow lark | nom song «communication intransitive»: of=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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