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title: Like a thing of life it glided softly through the furnace door, bowe… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: Like a thing of life it glided softly through the furnace door, bowed low before the wizard Smith, and waited to receive his judgment. Who acts: life, Ilmarinen. 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 ev
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Caldron, sentence 125

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Like a thing of life it glided softly through the furnace door, bowed low before the wizard Smith, and waited to receive his judgment.

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**Who acts:** life, Ilmarinen · **What happens:** glide, bow, wait, receive, judge · **To what, where:** furnace door, judgment

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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 (life, Ilmarinen), 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:pg66819:10:125
# text = Like a thing of life it glided softly through the furnace door, bowed low before the wizard Smith, and waited to receive his judgment.
1	Like	like	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
6	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	glided	glide	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	softly	softly	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
9	through	through	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	furnace	furnace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	bowed	bow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	acl	_	_
15	low	low	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	14	advmod	_	_
16	before	before	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	wizard	wizard	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	Smith	Smith	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	obl:agent	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	waited	wait	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
23	to	to	PART	TO	_	24	mark	_	_
24	receive	receive	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	xcomp	_	_
25	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	judgment	judgment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **glide** | past | life |  |  | the furnace door |  | like a thing of life; softly *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through door=Trajectory |
| 2 | **bow** | participle |  | the furnace door *not said here* |  |  |  | the wizard Smith *obl:agent*; low *property* | vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **wait** | past | life *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **receive** | to-infinitive | life *not said here* | Ilmarinen's judgment |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent judgment=Theme |
| 5 | **judge** |  | Ilmarinen |  |  |  |  |  | nom judgment «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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