The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Recipe, sentence 21
Never had he seen, never had he imagined, a maiden so wondrously fair.
Who acts: heart · What happens: not see, not have, imagine · To what, where: maiden
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 (heart), 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 | Never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 4 seen | advmod |
| 2 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 seen | aux |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 seen | nsubj |
| 4 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 had | punct |
| 6 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 7 had | advmod |
| 7 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 seen | conj |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 imagined | nsubj |
| 9 | imagined | imagine | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 had | xcomp |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 maiden | punct |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 maiden | det |
| 12 | maiden | maiden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 had | obl |
| 13 | so | so | ADV | _ | 15 fair | advmod |
| 14 | wondrously | wondrously | ADV | _ | 15 fair | advmod |
| 15 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 had | advcl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 seen | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not see | past · perfect | heart | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | not have | past | heart not said here | a maiden | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | imagine | participle | heart | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66819/9/21/