The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Recipe, sentence 2

The low, dark hall was full of shadows; dim figures lurked in the corners and danced among the rafters; the air was grimy with smoke; the flames burned blue and fitfully on the ash-strewn hearth.

Who acts: low dark hall, air, flames · What happens: be, lurk, dance, burn · To what, where: dim figures, corners, rafters

This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Recipe. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (low dark hall, air, flames), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 hall	det
2	low	low	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 hall	amod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 low	punct
4	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 hall	amod
5	hall	hall	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 full	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 full	cop
7	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 shadows	case
9	shadows	shadow	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 full	obl
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 figures	punct
11	dim	dim	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 figures	amod
12	figures	figure	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 shadows	appos
13	lurked	lurk	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 figures	acl
14	in	in	ADP	_	16 corners	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 corners	det
16	corners	corner	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 lurked	obl
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 danced	cc
18	danced	dance	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 lurked	conj
19	among	among	ADP	_	21 rafters	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 rafters	det
21	rafters	rafter	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 danced	obl
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 grimy	punct
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 air	det
24	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 grimy	nsubj
25	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 grimy	cop
26	grimy	grimy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 full	conj
27	with	with	ADP	_	28 smoke	case
28	smoke	smoke	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 grimy	obl
29	;	;	PUNCT	_	32 burned	punct
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 flames	det
31	flames	flame	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 burned	nsubj
32	burned	burn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 full	parataxis
33	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 burned	xcomp
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 hearth	cc
35	fitfully	fitfully	ADV	_	41 hearth	advmod
36	on	on	ADP	_	41 hearth	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 hearth	det
38	ash	ash	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 strewn	compound
39	-	-	PUNCT	_	38 ash	punct
40	strewn	strewn	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 hearth	amod
41	hearth	hearth	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 burned	conj
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 full	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	the low dark hall			of shadows; full property	tree rules
2	lurk	participle		dim figures not said here	the corners		vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in corner=Location
3	dance	past			the rafters		vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme among rafter=Location
4	is	past	the air			with smoke; grimy property	tree rules
5	burn	past	the flames			the strewn hearth conj; blue property	vn light_emission-43.1 «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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🌲 The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Recipe, sentence 2

The tree

Pragmatics

The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Recipe, sentence 2