The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Recipe, sentence 5

They reached their chilly fingers down through the chimney-hole as though they would snatch up the luckless Smith and bear him still farther away into regions untraversed and unknown.

Who acts: winds · What happens: reach, snatch up, bear, untravers · To what, where: chilly fingers, chimney hole, luckless Smith, Smith, regions

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 (winds), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 reached	nsubj
2	reached	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 fingers	nmod:poss
4	chilly	chilly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 fingers	amod
5	fingers	finger	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 reached	obj
6	down	down	ADV	_	2 reached	advmod
7	through	through	ADP	_	11 hole	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 hole	det
9	chimney	chimney	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 hole	compound
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 chimney	punct
11	hole	hole	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 reached	obl
12	as	as	ADV	_	16 snatch	advmod
13	though	though	SCONJ	_	16 snatch	mark
14	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 snatch	nsubj
15	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 snatch	aux
16	snatch	snatch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 reached	advcl
17	up	up	ADP	_	16 snatch	compound:prt
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 Smith	det
19	luckless	luckless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 Smith	amod
20	Smith	Smith	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 snatch	obj
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 bear	cc
22	bear	bear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 snatch	conj
23	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 bear	obj
24	still	still	ADV	_	25 farther	advmod
25	farther	far	ADV	Degree=Cmp	26 away	advmod
26	away	away	ADV	_	22 bear	advmod
27	into	into	ADP	_	28 regions	case
28	regions	region	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 away	obl
29	untraversed	untravers	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	28 regions	acl
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 unknown	cc
31	unknown	unknown	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 untraversed	conj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 reached	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	reach	past	winds = wind	winds's chilly fingers	the chimney hole		down property	vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent finger=Theme
2	snatch up	would	winds = wind	the luckless Smith				vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent smith=Theme
3	bear	infinitive	winds = wind not said here	Smith		still	away property	vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient
4	untravers	participle		regions not said here				tree rules

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 5

The tree

Pragmatics

The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Recipe, sentence 5