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title: They drew up closer to the fire, they threw fresh logs into the flam… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: They drew up closer to the fire, they threw fresh logs into the flames, they turned their faces towards him and asked a thousand curious questions. Who acts: listeners. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Caldron, with its dependency tree and the pragmatic
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Caldron, sentence 12

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They drew up closer to the fire, they threw fresh logs into the flames, they turned their faces towards him and asked a thousand curious questions.

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**Who acts:** listeners · **What happens:** draw up, throw, turn, ask · **To what, where:** fresh logs, flames, faces, thousand curious questions

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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 (listeners), 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:pg66819:10:12
# text = They drew up closer to the fire, they threw fresh logs into the flames, they turned their faces towards him and asked a thousand curious questions.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	drew	draw	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	up	up	ADP	RP	_	2	compound:prt	_	_
4	closer	close	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	2	advmod	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	threw	throw	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
11	fresh	fresh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	logs	log	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
13	into	into	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	flames	flame	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	turned	turn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
19	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	faces	face	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obj	_	_
21	towards	towards	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obl	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	asked	ask	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	conj	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	thousand	thousand	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	28	nummod	_	_
27	curious	curious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	questions	question	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **draw up** | past | listeners *= listener* |  |  |  |  | close *property* | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **throw** | past | listeners *= listener* | fresh logs |  |  |  | into the flames *result* | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Causer log=Theme into flame=Result |
| 3 | **turn** | past | listeners *= listener* | listeners's faces |  |  |  | towards thing | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent face=Theme towards he=Trajectory |
| 4 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past | listeners *= listener* *not said here* | thousand curious questions |  |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent question=Recipient |

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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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