The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Recipe, sentence 52
Toothless though she was, the wise old Mistress smiled—she smiled fearfully, cunningly, as one pleased and plotting.
Who acts: Sampos, wise old Mistress · What happens: be, smile, plot
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 (Sampos, wise old 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 | Toothless | toothless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 smiled | advcl |
| 2 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 4 was | mark |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 was | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Toothless | advcl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Toothless | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Mistress | det |
| 7 | wise | wise | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 Mistress | amod |
| 8 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 Mistress | amod |
| 9 | Mistress | mistress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 smiled | nsubj |
| 10 | smiled | smile | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 smiled | punct |
| 12 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 smiled | nsubj |
| 13 | smiled | smile | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 smiled | conj |
| 14 | fearfully | fearfully | ADV | _ | 13 smiled | advmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 cunningly | punct |
| 16 | cunningly | cunningly | ADV | _ | 13 smiled | advmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 pleased | punct |
| 18 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 20 pleased | mark |
| 19 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 20 pleased | nummod |
| 20 | pleased | pleased | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 smiled | parataxis |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 plotting | cc |
| 22 | plotting | plot | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 20 pleased | conj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 smiled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | Sampos | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | smile | past | the wise old Mistress | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | smile | past | Sampos | cunningly, fearfully property | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | plot | gerund | Sampos not said here | vn correspond-36.1 «NP V»: 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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