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title: And there also stood the Mistress of Pohyola, gray and grim and toot… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: And there also stood the Mistress of Pohyola, gray and grim and toothless, but noble in mien and of queenly appearance. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Homesick Hero, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Homesick Hero, sentence 104

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And there also stood the Mistress of Pohyola, gray and grim and toothless, but noble in mien and of queenly appearance.

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**What happens:** stand · **To what, where:** Mistress

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This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Homesick Hero. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:pg66819:12:104
# text = And there also stood the Mistress of Pohyola, gray and grim and toothless, but noble in mien and of queenly appearance.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	4	expl	_	_
3	also	also	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	Mistress	mistress	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	Pohyola	Pohyola	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	gray	gray	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	appos	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	grim	grim	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	conj	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	toothless	toothless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	noble	noble	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	mien	mien	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	queenly	queenly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	appearance	appearance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stand** | past |  | the Mistress of Pohyola |  | there |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer mistress=Stimulus |

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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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