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title: The South Wind crept softly up to the smithy door, it peeped slyly i… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: The South Wind crept softly up to the smithy door, it peeped slyly in, and said merrily: Who acts: South Wind, fragrance. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Forging of the Sampo, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Forging of the Sampo, sentence 7

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The South Wind crept softly up to the smithy door, it peeped slyly in, and said merrily:

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**Who acts:** South Wind, fragrance · **What happens:** creep, peep, say · **To what, where:** smithy door · **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 (South Wind, fragrance), 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:pg66819:11:7
# text = The South Wind crept softly up to the smithy door, it peeped slyly in, and said merrily:
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	South	South	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	Wind	Wind	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	crept	creep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	softly	softly	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	up	up	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	smithy	smithy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	peeped	peep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
14	slyly	slyly	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
15	in	in	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
19	merrily	merrily	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **creep** | past | the South Wind |  |  | the smithy door |  | softly *property* | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme up door=Trajectory |
| 2 | **peep** | past | fragrance |  |  |  |  | slyly *property* | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past |  |  |  |  |  | merrily *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |

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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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