--- title: The maiden answered softly, and she blushed as she spoke: “Why shoul… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics description: The maiden answered softly, and she blushed as she spoke: “Why should I leave my own sweet home to go and live with strangers, to be a poor man’s wife in a poor and distant land? Who acts: maiden, task. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (maiden, task), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg66819:12:23 # text = The maiden answered softly, and she blushed as she spoke: “Why should I leave my own sweet home to go and live with strangers, to be a poor man’s wife in a poor and distant land? 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 maiden maiden NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 answered answer VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 softly softly ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 7 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 nsubj _ _ 8 blushed blush VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 9 as as SCONJ IN _ 11 mark _ _ 10 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj _ _ 11 spoke speak VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 12 : : PUNCT : _ 17 punct _ _ 13 “ " PUNCT `` _ 17 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 14 Why why ADV WRB PronType=Int 17 advmod _ _ 15 should should AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 17 aux _ _ 16 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 17 leave leave VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 conj _ _ 18 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 21 nmod:poss _ _ 19 own own ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 20 sweet sweet ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 21 home home NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obj _ _ 22 to to PART TO _ 23 mark _ _ 23 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 17 advcl _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 25 live live VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 23 conj _ _ 26 with with ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 27 strangers stranger NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 28 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 29 to to PART TO _ 35 mark _ _ 30 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 35 cop _ _ 31 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 32 poor poor ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 amod _ _ 33 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 34 ’s 's PART POS _ 33 case _ _ 35 wife wife NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obl _ _ 36 in in ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 37 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 38 poor poor ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 41 amod _ _ 39 and and CCONJ CC _ 40 cc _ _ 40 distant distant ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 38 conj _ _ 41 land land NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 42 ? ? PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **answer** *speech: assert* | past | the maiden | | | | | softly *property* | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **blush** | past | task | | | | | | vn hiccup-40.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **speak** *speech: other* | past | task | | | | | | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **leave** *in a quote* | should | task | my own sweet home | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent home=Theme | | 5 | **go** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | task *not said here* | | | | | | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **live** *in a quote* | infinitive | task *not said here* | | | | | with strangers | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with stranger=Location | | 7 | **is a** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | | a poor man's wife | | a poor land | | a poor man *nmod:poss* | tree rules | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66819/12/22/) - next →: [sentence 24](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66819/12/24/) - ↑ back to [The Homesick Hero](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66819/12/)