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title: The queen listened, and her ashy-pale face grew paler still and an u… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: The queen listened, and her ashy-pale face grew paler still and an unpitying smile overspread her joyless countenance. Who acts: queen, ashy pale face, unpitying smile. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Land of Tuonela, with its dependency tree and the p
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Land of Tuonela, sentence 135

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The queen listened, and her ashy-pale face grew paler still and an unpitying smile overspread her joyless countenance.

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**Who acts:** queen, ashy pale face, unpitying smile · **What happens:** listen, grow, overspread · **To what, where:** joyless countenance

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This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Land of Tuonela. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (queen, ashy pale face, unpitying smile), 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:pg66819:14:135
# text = The queen listened, and her ashy-pale face grew paler still and an unpitying smile overspread her joyless countenance.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	queen	queen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	listened	listen	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
6	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
7	ashy	ashy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	pale	pale	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
12	paler	pale	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	11	xcomp	_	_
13	still	still	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
15	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	unpitying	unpitying	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	smile	smile	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
18	overspread	overspread	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
19	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
20	joyless	joyless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	countenance	countenance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **listen** | past | the queen |  |  |  |  |  | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **grow** | past | queen's ashy pale face |  |  |  | still | pale *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **overspread** | past | a unpitying smile | queen's joyless countenance |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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