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title: Then suddenly the mist cleared away and a beautiful young heifer spr… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: Then suddenly the mist cleared away and a beautiful young heifer sprang out into the sunlight. Who acts: mist, beautiful young heifer. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Caldron, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Caldron, sentence 111

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Then suddenly the mist cleared away and a beautiful young heifer sprang out into the sunlight.

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**Who acts:** mist, beautiful young heifer · **What happens:** clear away, spring out · **To what, where:** sunlight

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This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Caldron. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mist, beautiful young heifer), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg66819:10:111
# text = Then suddenly the mist cleared away and a beautiful young heifer sprang out into the sunlight.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	_
2	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	mist	mist	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	cleared	clear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	away	away	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
9	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
10	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	heifer	heifer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
12	sprang	spring	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
13	out	out	ADP	RP	_	12	compound:prt	_	_
14	into	into	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	sunlight	sunlight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **clear away** | past | the mist |  |  |  | then | away, suddenly *property* | vn clear-10.3-1 «NP.Source V»: agent=Source |
| 2 | **spring out** | past | a beautiful young heifer |  |  | the sunlight |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into sunlight=Destination |

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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.

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**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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