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title: Forthwith the crossbow leaped from the caldron; it flew out of the f… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: Forthwith the crossbow leaped from the caldron; it flew out of the furnace; it stood humbly bowing before the wizard Smith. Who acts: bow. 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 75

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Forthwith the crossbow leaped from the caldron; it flew out of the furnace; it stood humbly bowing before the wizard Smith.

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**Who acts:** bow · **What happens:** leap, fly out, stand, bow · **To what, where:** crossbow, caldron, furnace, wizard Smith

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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 (bow), 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:pg66819:10:75
# text = Forthwith the crossbow leaped from the caldron; it flew out of the furnace; it stood humbly bowing before the wizard Smith.
1	Forthwith	forthwith	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	crossbow	crossbow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
4	leaped	leap	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl	_	_
5	from	from	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	caldron	caldron	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
9	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	flew	fly	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	out	out	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	furnace	furnace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
16	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
18	humbly	humbly	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
19	bowing	bow	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	17	advcl	_	_
20	before	before	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	wizard	wizard	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	Smith	Smith	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **leap** | participle |  | the crossbow *not said here* |  | the caldron |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from caldron=Trajectory |
| 2 | **fly out** | past | bow | the furnace |  |  |  | forthwith the crossbow | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location furnace=Theme |
| 3 | **stand** | past | bow |  |  |  |  | humbly *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **bow** | gerund | bow *not said here* |  |  | the wizard Smith |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before smith=Location |

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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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