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title: The flames filled the furnace; they wrapped themselves around the ca… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: The flames filled the furnace; they wrapped themselves around the caldron; they burst out through a thousand cracks and crevices; they leaped, in tongues of fire, through the windows of the smithy. Who acts: flames. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Forg
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Forging of the Sampo, sentence 26

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The flames filled the furnace; they wrapped themselves around the caldron; they burst out through a thousand cracks and crevices; they leaped, in tongues of fire, through the windows of the smithy.

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**Who acts:** flames · **What happens:** fill, wrap, burst out, leap · **To what, where:** furnace, flames, caldron, thousand cracks, tongues, windows

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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 (flames), 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:pg66819:11:26
# text = The flames filled the furnace; they wrapped themselves around the caldron; they burst out through a thousand cracks and crevices; they leaped, in tongues of fire, through the windows of the smithy.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	flames	flame	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	filled	fill	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	furnace	furnace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	8	punct	_	_
7	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	wrapped	wrap	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
9	themselves	themselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	8	obj	_	_
10	around	around	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	caldron	caldron	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
14	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	burst	burst	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
16	out	out	ADP	RP	_	15	compound:prt	_	_
17	through	through	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	thousand	thousand	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	20	nummod	_	_
20	cracks	crack	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	crevices	crevice	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	25	punct	_	_
24	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
25	leaped	leap	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
27	in	in	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	tongues	tongue	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obj	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
32	through	through	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	windows	window	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obl	_	_
35	of	of	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	smithy	smithy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fill** | past | the flames | the furnace |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent furnace=Patient |
| 2 | **wrap** | past | flames *= flame* | flames *= flame* |  | the caldron |  |  | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent themselves=Theme around caldron=Destination |
| 3 | **burst out** | past | flames *= flame* |  |  | thousand cracks and crevices |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through crack=Location |
| 4 | **leap** | past | flames *= flame* | tongues of fire |  | the windows of the smithy |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme tongue=Trajectory |

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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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