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title: Then he kindled the fire, he heaped on fuel, he closed the furnace d… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: Then he kindled the fire, he heaped on fuel, he closed the furnace door and bade the serving-men set the bellows to blowing. Who acts: Ilmarinen, bade. 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 61

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Then he kindled the fire, he heaped on fuel, he closed the furnace door and bade the serving-men set the bellows to blowing.

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**Who acts:** Ilmarinen, bade · **What happens:** kindle, heap, close, set, blowing · **To what, where:** fire, fuel, furnace door, bellows

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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 (Ilmarinen, bade), 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:pg66819:10:61
# text = Then he kindled the fire, he heaped on fuel, he closed the furnace door and bade the serving-men set the bellows to blowing.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	kindled	kindle	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	heaped	heap	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
9	on	on	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	fuel	fuel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	closed	close	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	furnace	furnace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
18	bade	bade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
20	serving	serving	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nsubj	_	_
23	set	set	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	bellows	bellow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obj	_	_
26	to	to	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	blowing	blowing	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **kindle** | past | Ilmarinen | the fire |  |  | then |  | vn engender-27.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition fire=Patient |
| 2 | **heap** | past | Ilmarinen |  |  | fuel |  |  | vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent on fuel=Destination |
| 3 | **close** | past | Ilmarinen | the furnace door |  |  |  |  | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent door=Patient |
| 4 | **set** | past | bade | the bellows |  |  |  | the serving men *nsubj* | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient bellow=Result |
| 5 | **blowing** | infinitive | bade *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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