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title: Then she danced another gleeful dance, splashing the water over hers… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: Then she danced another gleeful dance, splashing the water over herself and over the Minstrel, and making little waves that rocked the fairy boat to and fro but did not stir it from its place. Who acts: deck, little waves. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, T
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Maid of the Morning, sentence 61

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Then she danced another gleeful dance, splashing the water over herself and over the Minstrel, and making little waves that rocked the fairy boat to and fro but did not stir it from its place.

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**Who acts:** deck, little waves · **What happens:** dance, splash, make, rock, fro, not stir · **To what, where:** gleeful dance, water, little waves, fairy boat, boat, place

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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 (deck, little waves), 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:pg66819:19:61
# text = Then she danced another gleeful dance, splashing the water over herself and over the Minstrel, and making little waves that rocked the fairy boat to and fro but did not stir it from its place.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	danced	dance	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	6	det	_	_
5	gleeful	gleeful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	dance	dance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	splashing	splash	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	over	over	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	herself	herself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	8	obl	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
14	over	over	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	Minstrel	Minstrel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	making	make	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
20	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	waves	wave	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obj	_	_
22	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	23	nsubj	_	_
23	rocked	rock	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	acl:relcl	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	fairy	fairy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	boat	boat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
27	to	to	ADP	IN	_	23	obl	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	fro	fro	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	conj	_	_
30	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
31	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	33	aux	_	_
32	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	33	advmod	_	_
33	stir	stir	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
34	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	obj	_	_
35	from	from	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	37	nmod:poss	_	_
37	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **dance** | past | deck | another gleeful dance |  |  | then |  | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location dance=Theme |
| 2 | **splash** | gerund | deck *not said here* | the water |  |  |  | over deck | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent water=Theme over herself=Destination |
| 3 | **make** | gerund | deck *not said here* | little waves |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset wave=Product |
| 4 | **rock** | past | little waves | the fairy boat |  |  |  |  | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location boat=Theme |
| 5 | **fro** | infinitive | deck *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **not** **stir** | past · do-support | deck *not said here* | boat |  | boat's place |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus it=Experiencer |

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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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