The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Tempest, sentence 25
In a moment the tree of magic melted into nothingness, and the fairy moon and the dancing stars vanished in the murk and gloom.
Who acts: fairy moon · What happens: melt, vanish · To what, where: tree, nothingness, murk
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Tempest. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fairy moon), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 moment | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 moment | det |
| 3 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 melted | obl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 tree | det |
| 5 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 melted | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 magic | case |
| 7 | magic | magic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 tree | nmod |
| 8 | melted | melt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | into | into | ADP | _ | 10 nothingness | case |
| 10 | nothingness | nothingness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 melted | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 vanished | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 vanished | cc |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 moon | det |
| 14 | fairy | fairy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 moon | compound |
| 15 | moon | moon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 vanished | nsubj |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 stars | cc |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 stars | det |
| 18 | dancing | dancing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 stars | compound |
| 19 | stars | star | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 moon | conj |
| 20 | vanished | vanish | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 melted | conj |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 murk | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 murk | det |
| 23 | murk | murk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 vanished | obl |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 gloom | cc |
| 25 | gloom | gloom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 murk | conj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 melted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | melt | participle · passive | the tree of magic | nothingness | moment | vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material PP.product»: subject=Material into nothingness=Product | |||
| 2 | vanish | past | the fairy moon and the dancing stars | the murk and gloom | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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