---
title: His face grew red with confusion, his lips trembled with vexation; f… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: His face grew red with confusion, his lips trembled with vexation; for, right before his eyes, he saw one whom he by no means wished to see. Who acts: face, Wainamoinen, no. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Maid of the Morning, with its dependency tree 
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66819/19/15/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old No…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66819/) / [The Maid of the Morning](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66819/19/) / 15

# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Maid of the Morning, sentence 15

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
His face grew red with confusion, his lips trembled with vexation; for, right before his eyes, he saw one whom he by no means wished to see.

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** face, Wainamoinen, no · **What happens:** grow, tremble, see, mean, wish · **To what, where:** lips, one · **Speech:** someone speaks here

<!-- .vabout -->
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Maid of the Morning. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (face, Wainamoinen, no), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

<!-- .note-en -->
**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg66819:19:15
# text = His face grew red with confusion, his lips trembled with vexation; for, right before his eyes, he saw one whom he by no means wished to see.
1	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	xcomp	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	confusion	confusion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	lips	lip	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	conj	_	_
10	trembled	tremble	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	acl	_	_
11	with	with	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	vexation	vexation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
14	for	for	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	right	right	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
17	before	before	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
23	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	22	obj	_	_
24	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	23	nmod	_	_
25	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
26	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
27	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	28	nsubj	_	_
28	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	advcl	_	_
29	wished	wish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	28	ccomp	_	_
30	to	to	PART	TO	_	31	mark	_	_
31	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grow** | past | Wainamoinen's face |  |  |  |  | with confusion and Wainamoinen's lips; for Wainamoinen's eyes; red *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **tremble** | participle |  | Wainamoinen's lips *not said here* |  |  |  | with vexation | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **see** | past | Wainamoinen | one |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer one=Stimulus |
| 4 | **mean** | present | no |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 5 | **wish** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 6 | **see** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [sentence 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66819/19/14/)
- next →: [sentence 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66819/19/16/)
- ↑ back to [The Maid of the Morning](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66819/19/)