The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Recipe, sentence 8
“In such a storm as this, any shelter is sweet,” he said; and he stirred the fire logs till the sparks shot upward and filled the hall with the sound of their merry snapping.
Who acts: shelter, Smith, sparks · What happens: be, say, stir, shoot, fill · To what, where: storm, fire logs, hall · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (shelter, Smith, sparks), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 sweet | punct |
| 2 | In | in | ADP | _ | 5 storm | case |
| 3 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 5 storm | det:predet |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 storm | det |
| 5 | storm | storm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 sweet | obl |
| 6 | as | as | ADP | _ | 7 this | case |
| 7 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 storm | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 storm | punct |
| 9 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 10 shelter | det |
| 10 | shelter | shelter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 sweet | nsubj |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 sweet | cop |
| 12 | sweet | sweet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 said | ccomp |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 sweet | punct |
| 14 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 sweet | punct |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 said | nsubj |
| 16 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 stirred | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 stirred | cc |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 stirred | nsubj |
| 20 | stirred | stir | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 said | ccomp |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 logs | det |
| 22 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 logs | compound |
| 23 | logs | log | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 stirred | obj |
| 24 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 27 shot | mark |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 sparks | det |
| 26 | sparks | spark | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 shot | nsubj |
| 27 | shot | shoot | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 stirred | advcl |
| 28 | upward | upward | ADV | _ | 27 shot | advmod |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 filled | cc |
| 30 | filled | fill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 shot | conj |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 hall | det |
| 32 | hall | hall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 filled | obj |
| 33 | with | with | ADP | _ | 35 sound | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 sound | det |
| 35 | sound | sound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 filled | obl |
| 36 | of | of | ADP | _ | 39 snapping | case |
| 37 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 39 snapping | nmod:poss |
| 38 | merry | merry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 snapping | amod |
| 39 | snapping | snapping | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 sound | nmod |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | any shelter | such storm as this | sweet property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Smith | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | stir | past | Smith | the fire logs | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus log=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | shoot | past | the sparks | upward property | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | fill | past | the sparks not said here | the hall | with the sound of sparks's merry snapping | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent hall=Patient with sound=Instrument |
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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