--- title: He remembered how the maiden had laughed at him and twitted him as s… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics description: He remembered how the maiden had laughed at him and twitted him as she sat on the rainbow plying her magic shuttles and weaving the web of the unmeasured sky; and as he thought of her words and her taunting manner, his feeling of reverence for her was tempered with a desire for some sort of revenge. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66819/13/24/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old No…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66819/) / [The Unfinished Boat](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66819/13/) / 24 # The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Unfinished Boat, sentence 24 He remembered how the maiden had laughed at him and twitted him as she sat on the rainbow plying her magic shuttles and weaving the web of the unmeasured sky; and as he thought of her words and her taunting manner, his feeling of reverence for her was tempered with a desire for some sort of revenge. **Who acts:** Ilmarinen, Land, rainbow · **What happens:** remember, laugh, twit, sit, ply, shuttle · **To what, where:** maiden, Ilmarinen, rainbow, magic, web, Land · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Unfinished Boat. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ilmarinen, Land, rainbow), 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:pg66819:13:24 # text = He remembered how the maiden had laughed at him and twitted him as she sat on the rainbow plying her magic shuttles and weaving the web of the unmeasured sky; and as he thought of her words and her taunting manner, his feeling of reverence for her was tempered with a desire for some sort of revenge. 1 He he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 remembered remember VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 7 advmod _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 maiden maiden NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj:pass _ _ 6 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 aux _ _ 7 laughed laugh VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 2 advcl _ _ 8 at at ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 7 obl _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 11 twitted twit VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 12 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 obj _ _ 13 as as SCONJ IN _ 15 mark _ _ 14 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 15 sat sit VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 22 advcl _ _ 16 on on ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 rainbow rainbow NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ _ 19 plying ply VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 18 acl _ _ 20 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 21 nmod:poss _ _ 21 magic magic NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obj _ _ 22 shuttles shuttle VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 parataxis _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 24 weaving weave VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 22 conj _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 web web NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obj _ _ 27 of of ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 29 unmeasured unmeasured ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 amod _ _ 30 sky sky NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 31 ; ; PUNCT : _ 35 punct _ _ 32 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 33 as as SCONJ IN _ 35 mark _ _ 34 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 35 nsubj _ _ 35 thought think VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 36 of of ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 37 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 38 nmod:poss _ _ 38 words word NOUN NNS Number=Plur 35 obl _ _ 39 and and CCONJ CC _ 42 cc _ _ 40 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 42 nmod:poss _ _ 41 taunting taunt VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 42 amod _ _ 42 manner manner NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 43 , , PUNCT , _ 45 punct _ _ 44 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 45 nmod:poss _ _ 45 feeling feeling NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 ccomp _ _ 46 of of ADP IN _ 47 case _ _ 47 reverence reverence NOUN NN Number=Sing 45 nmod _ _ 48 for for SCONJ IN _ 51 mark _ _ 49 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 51 nsubj:pass _ _ 50 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 51 aux:pass _ _ 51 tempered temper VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 35 ccomp _ _ 52 with with ADP IN _ 54 case _ _ 53 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 54 det _ _ 54 desire desire NOUN NN Number=Sing 51 obl _ _ 55 for for ADP IN _ 57 case _ _ 56 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 57 det _ _ 57 sort sort NOUN NN Number=Sing 54 nmod _ _ 58 of of ADP IN _ 59 case _ _ 59 revenge revenge NOUN NN Number=Sing 57 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 60 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **remember** | past | Ilmarinen | | | | | | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **laugh** | past · perfect · passive | | the maiden | | | | at Ilmarinen | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | | 3 | **twit** | past | Ilmarinen *not said here* | Ilmarinen | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **sit** | past | Land | | | the rainbow | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on rainbow=Location | | 5 | **ply** | gerund | the rainbow *not said here* | Land's magic | | | | | vn equip-13.4.2 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP»: agent=Agent magic=Recipient | | 6 | **shuttle** | present | | | | | | | vn drive-11.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **weave** | gerund | | the web of the unmeasured sky | | | | | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent web=Product | | 8 | **think** *speech: other* | past | Ilmarinen | | | | | of Land's words and Land's taunting manner; Ilmarinen's feeling of reverence *ccomp* | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 9 | **taunt** | gerund | | | | | | | vn bully-59.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 10 | **temper** | past · passive | | Land | | | | with a desire for some sort of revenge | tree rules | | 11 | **word** | | Land | | | | | | nom word «communication transitive»: poss=agent | | 12 | **sort** | | | revenge | | | | | nom sort «cognition transitive»: of=patient | 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 23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66819/13/23/) - next →: [sentence 25](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66819/13/25/) - ↑ back to [The Unfinished Boat](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66819/13/)