--- title: He waited not for the plough’s answer, but struck it with his hammer… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics description: He waited not for the plough’s answer, but struck it with his hammer and broke it into a thousand fragments; then he threw the fragments back into the magic caldron and closed the door of the furnace. Who acts: Smith. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Smith), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg66819:10:138 # text = He waited not for the plough’s answer, but struck it with his hammer and broke it into a thousand fragments; then he threw the fragments back into the magic caldron and closed the door of the furnace. 1 He he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 waited wait VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 2 advmod _ _ 4 for for ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 plough plough NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 7 ’s 's PART POS _ 6 case _ _ 8 answer answer NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 10 but but CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 11 struck strike VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 12 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 obj _ _ 13 with with ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 15 nmod:poss _ _ 15 hammer hammer NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 17 broke break VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 conj _ _ 18 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 obj _ _ 19 into into ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 20 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 thousand thousand NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 22 nummod _ _ 22 fragments fragment NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 23 ; ; PUNCT : _ 26 punct _ _ 24 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 26 advmod _ _ 25 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ _ 26 threw throw VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 fragments fragment NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 obj _ _ 29 back back ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ _ 30 into into ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 32 magic magic ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 amod _ _ 33 caldron caldron NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obl _ _ 34 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 35 closed close VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 26 conj _ _ 36 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 37 door door NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obj _ _ 38 of of ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 39 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 40 furnace furnace NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 41 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **wait** | past | Smith | | | | | for the plough's answer | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **strike** | past | Smith *not said here* | answer | | | | with Smith's hammer | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent it=Patient with hammer=Instrument | | 3 | **break** | past | Smith *not said here* | answer | | | | into thousand fragments *result* | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent it=Patient into fragment=Result | | 4 | **throw back** | past | Smith | the fragments | | | then | into the magic caldron *result* | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Causer fragment=Theme into caldron=Result | | 5 | **close** | past | Smith *not said here* | the door of the furnace | | | | | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent door=Patient | | 6 | **answer** | | | the plough | | | | | nom answer «communication transitive»: poss=patient | 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. - ← previous: [sentence 137](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66819/10/137/) - next →: [sentence 139](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66819/10/139/) - ↑ back to [The Caldron](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66819/10/)