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title: From beneath rocks and from crevices in the earth snakes peeped out,… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: From beneath rocks and from crevices in the earth snakes peeped out, licking with fiery tongues. Who acts: beneath rocks. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Hag of the Rock, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Hag of the Rock, sentence 47

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From beneath rocks and from crevices in the earth snakes peeped out, licking with fiery tongues.

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**Who acts:** beneath rocks · **What happens:** peep out, lick · **To what, where:** earth snakes, beneath rocks

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This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Hag of the Rock. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (beneath rocks), 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:pg66819:15:47
# text = From beneath rocks and from crevices in the earth snakes peeped out, licking with fiery tongues.
1	From	from	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	beneath	beneath	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	rocks	rock	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
5	from	from	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	crevices	crevice	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	earth	earth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	snakes	snake	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	_
11	peeped	peep	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	acl	_	_
12	out	out	ADP	RP	_	11	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	licking	lick	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	acl	_	_
15	with	with	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	fiery	fiery	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	tongues	tongue	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **peep out** | participle |  | the earth snakes *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **lick** | gerund | beneath rocks and crevices in the earth snakes *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with fiery tongues | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with tongue=Instrument |

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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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