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title: And now, like a queen clad in her gorgeous robes, the little vessel… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: And now, like a queen clad in her gorgeous robes, the little vessel sat upon the sandy beach and smiled at the morning sun and the rippling waves of the sea. Who acts: little vessel. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Launching, with its dependency tree a
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Launching, sentence 31

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And now, like a queen clad in her gorgeous robes, the little vessel sat upon the sandy beach and smiled at the morning sun and the rippling waves of the sea.

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**Who acts:** little vessel · **What happens:** clad, sit, smile, wave · **To what, where:** queen, gorgeous robes, sandy beach, morning sun, sea

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This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Launching. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (little vessel), 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:pg66819:18:31
# text = And now, like a queen clad in her gorgeous robes, the little vessel sat upon the sandy beach and smiled at the morning sun and the rippling waves of the sea.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
2	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	16	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	like	like	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	queen	queen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
7	clad	clad	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	acl	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
10	gorgeous	gorgeous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	robes	robe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	vessel	vessel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
16	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
17	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	sandy	sandy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	beach	beach	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	smiled	smile	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	conj	_	_
23	at	at	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
26	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	rippling	rippling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	_
30	waves	wave	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	conj	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **clad** | participle |  | a queen *not said here* |  | mast's gorgeous robes |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **sit** | past | the little vessel |  |  | the sandy beach | now | like a queen | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent upon beach=Location |
| 3 | **smile** | past | the little vessel *not said here* |  |  | the morning sun and the rippling waves of the sea |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **wave** |  |  | the sea |  |  |  |  | nom wave «event transitive»: of=patient |

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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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