The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Tempest, sentence 62
And then she turned and left him—left him standing by the hearth-side and gazing sadly, thoughtfully, into the flames.
Who acts: Mistress · What happens: turn, leave, stand, gaze · To what, where: Ilmarinen, flames
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 (Mistress), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 turned | cc |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 turned | advmod |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 turned | nsubj |
| 4 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 left | cc |
| 6 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 turned | conj |
| 7 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 left | obj |
| 8 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 left | punct |
| 9 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 turned | conj |
| 10 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 left | obj |
| 11 | standing | stand | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 left | advcl |
| 12 | by | by | ADP | _ | 16 side | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 side | det |
| 14 | hearth | hearth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 side | compound |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 hearth | punct |
| 16 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 standing | obl |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 gazing | cc |
| 18 | gazing | gaze | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 standing | conj |
| 19 | sadly | sadly | ADV | _ | 18 gazing | advmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 thoughtfully | punct |
| 21 | thoughtfully | thoughtfully | ADV | _ | 18 gazing | advmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 flames | punct |
| 23 | into | into | ADP | _ | 25 flames | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 flames | det |
| 25 | flames | flame | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 standing | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 turned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn | past | Mistress | then | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | leave | past | Mistress not said here | Ilmarinen | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | ||||
| 3 | leave | past | Mistress not said here | Ilmarinen | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | ||||
| 4 | stand | gerund | Mistress not said here | the flames | by the hearth side | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by side=Location | |||
| 5 | gaze | gerund | Mistress not said here | sadly, thoughtfully property | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: 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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