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title: As the flames subsided and the furnace began to grow cool, behold a… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: As the flames subsided and the furnace began to grow cool, behold a ship rose from the mixture—a ship complete with pointed beak and oars and sails, all ready to be launched upon the sea. Who acts: flames, furnace. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Caldr
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Caldron, sentence 95

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As the flames subsided and the furnace began to grow cool, behold a ship rose from the mixture—a ship complete with pointed beak and oars and sails, all ready to be launched upon the sea.

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**Who acts:** flames, furnace · **What happens:** subside, begin, grow, launch · **To what, where:** ship rose, sea

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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 (flames, furnace), 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:pg66819:10:95
# text = As the flames subsided and the furnace began to grow cool, behold a ship rose from the mixture—a ship complete with pointed beak and oars and sails, all ready to be launched upon the sea.
1	As	as	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	flames	flame	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	subsided	subside	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	furnace	furnace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	grow	grow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	xcomp	_	_
11	cool	cool	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	behold	behold	INTJ	UH	_	16	discourse	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	ship	ship	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	rose	rose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
17	from	from	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	mixture	mixture	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	ship	ship	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	_
23	complete	complete	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
24	with	with	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	pointed	pointed	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	beak	beak	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	oars	oar	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	conj	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	sails	sail	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
32	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	33	advmod	_	_
33	ready	ready	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	conj	_	_
34	to	to	PART	TO	_	36	mark	_	_
35	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	36	aux:pass	_	_
36	launched	launch	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	33	xcomp	_	_
37	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **subside** | past | the flames |  |  |  |  |  | vn entity\_specific\_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **begin** | past | the furnace | a ship rose from the mixture and a ship |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 3 | **grow** | to-infinitive | the furnace *not said here* |  |  |  |  | cool *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **launch** | to-infinitive · passive | the furnace *not said here* |  |  | the sea |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: upon sea=Destination |

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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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