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title: The features of the unlovely Mistress softened, they lost somewhat o… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: The features of the unlovely Mistress softened, they lost somewhat of their grimness as she answered: “Willingly would I fulfil it, prince of wizards and of smiths; but I cannot. Who acts: features, mouth. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Forging of the
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Forging of the Sampo, sentence 100

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The features of the unlovely Mistress softened, they lost somewhat of their grimness as she answered: “Willingly would I fulfil it, prince of wizards and of smiths; but I cannot.

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**Who acts:** features, mouth · **What happens:** soften, lose, answer, fulfil, feature · **To what, where:** grimness, unlovely Mistress · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Forging of the Sampo. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (features, mouth), 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:pg66819:11:100
# text = The features of the unlovely Mistress softened, they lost somewhat of their grimness as she answered: “Willingly would I fulfil it, prince of wizards and of smiths; but I cannot.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	features	feature	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	unlovely	unlovely	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	Mistress	mistress	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
7	softened	soften	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	lost	lose	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
11	somewhat	somewhat	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	grimness	grimness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
15	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
16	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	answered	answer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	23	punct	_	_
19	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	Willingly	willingly	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
21	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
22	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	fulfil	fulfil	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	ccomp	_	_
24	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
26	prince	prince	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	wizards	wizard	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	nmod	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	smiths	smith	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
33	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
34	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	35	nsubj	_	_
35	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	35	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **soften** | past | the features of the unlovely Mistress |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **lose** | past | features *= feature* | features's grimness |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grimness=Eventuality |
| 3 | **answer** *speech: assert* | past | mouth |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **fulfil** *in a quote* | would | mouth | grimness |  |  |  | prince of wizards and smiths *obl*; willingly *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **feature** |  |  | the unlovely Mistress |  |  |  |  | nom feature «cognition transitive»: of=patient |

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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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