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title: The dwarfish maiden could scarce contain herself for anger. — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: The dwarfish maiden could scarce contain herself for anger. Who acts: dwarfish 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 53

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The dwarfish maiden could scarce contain herself for anger.

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**Who acts:** dwarfish maiden · **What happens:** scarce, contain · **To what, where:** maiden

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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 (dwarfish 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:pg66819:14:53
# text = The dwarfish maiden could scarce contain herself for anger.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	dwarfish	dwarfish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	maiden	maiden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	scarce	scarce	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	contain	contain	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	xcomp	_	_
7	herself	herself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	6	obj	_	_
8	for	for	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	anger	anger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **scarce** | could | the dwarfish maiden |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **contain** | infinitive | the dwarfish maiden *not said here* | maiden |  |  |  | for anger | vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot herself=Theme |

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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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