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title: Her eyes gleamed like lightning and her face was stern and pitiless. — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: Her eyes gleamed like lightning and her face was stern and pitiless. Who acts: eyes, face. 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 pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Land of Tuonela, sentence 33

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Her eyes gleamed like lightning and her face was stern and pitiless.

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**Who acts:** eyes, face · **What happens:** gleam, be

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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 (eyes, face), 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:pg66819:14:33
# text = Her eyes gleamed like lightning and her face was stern and pitiless.
1	Her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	gleamed	gleam	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
4	like	like	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	lightning	lightning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
7	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
9	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
10	stern	stern	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	pitiless	pitiless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **gleam** | participle | maiden's eyes |  |  |  |  | like lightning | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | past | maiden's face |  |  |  |  | stern *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **be** |  | maiden's face *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | 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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