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title: “You speak falsely!” cried the dwarfish maiden, with anger in her to… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: “You speak falsely!” cried the dwarfish maiden, with anger in her tones. Who acts: You, dwarfish maiden, maiden. 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 43

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“You speak falsely!” cried the dwarfish maiden, with anger in her tones.

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**Who acts:** You, dwarfish maiden, maiden · **What happens:** speak, cry, intonate · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (You, dwarfish maiden, maiden), 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:pg66819:14:43
# text = “You speak falsely!” cried the dwarfish maiden, with anger in her tones.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	speak	speak	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	falsely	falsely	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
7	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	dwarfish	dwarfish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	maiden	maiden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	with	with	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	anger	anger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	tones	tone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **speak** *speech: other* *in a quote* | present | You |  |  |  |  | falsely *property* | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **cry** *speech: express* | past | the dwarfish maiden |  |  |  |  | with anger in maiden's tones | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with anger=Theme |
| 3 | **intonate** |  | maiden |  |  |  |  |  | nom tone «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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