The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Recipe, sentence 70
And the cunning Mistress grimly smiled and joyfully gave him a home in her broad, low dwelling—she gave him food and lodging, the softest seat beside her hearth, the warmest bed beneath her rafters.
Who acts: cunning Mistress, Mistress · What happens: smile, give, dwell · To what, where: home, Ilmarinen, food
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 (cunning Mistress, 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 | _ | 6 smiled | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Mistress | det |
| 3 | cunning | cunning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 Mistress | compound |
| 4 | Mistress | mistress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 smiled | nsubj |
| 5 | grimly | grimly | ADV | _ | 6 smiled | advmod |
| 6 | smiled | smile | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 gave | cc |
| 8 | joyfully | joyfully | ADV | _ | 9 gave | advmod |
| 9 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 smiled | conj |
| 10 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 gave | iobj |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 home | det |
| 12 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 gave | obj |
| 13 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 18 dwelling | mark |
| 14 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 dwelling | nmod:poss |
| 15 | broad | broad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 dwelling | amod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 low | punct |
| 17 | low | low | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 broad | conj |
| 18 | dwelling | dwell | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 gave | advcl |
| 19 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 21 gave | punct |
| 20 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 gave | nsubj |
| 21 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 smiled | conj |
| 22 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 gave | iobj |
| 23 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 gave | obj |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 lodging | cc |
| 25 | lodging | lodging | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 food | conj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 seat | punct |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 seat | det |
| 28 | softest | soft | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 29 seat | amod |
| 29 | seat | seat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 food | conj |
| 30 | beside | beside | ADP | _ | 32 hearth | case |
| 31 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 hearth | nmod:poss |
| 32 | hearth | hearth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 seat | nmod |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 bed | punct |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 bed | det |
| 35 | warmest | warm | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 36 bed | amod |
| 36 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 food | conj |
| 37 | beneath | beneath | ADP | _ | 39 rafters | case |
| 38 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 39 rafters | nmod:poss |
| 39 | rafters | rafter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 gave | obl |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 smiled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | smile | past | the cunning Mistress | grimly property | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | give | past | the cunning Mistress not said here | a home | Ilmarinen | joyfully property | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient home=Theme | ||
| 3 | dwell | gerund | the cunning Mistress not said here | Mistress nmod:poss | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | give | past | Mistress | food and lodging and the softest seat beside Mistress's hearth and the warmest bed | Ilmarinen | beneath Mistress's rafters | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient food=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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