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title: The housekeeping in the roomy dwelling beside the sea would have bee… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: The housekeeping in the roomy dwelling beside the sea would have been shabbily attended to had it not been for her daily care; and the sun would have shone but seldom in the Frozen Land [B] had not the Maid of Beauty encouraged it with her smiles. Who acts: housekeeping, Maid, Nature. A sentence of 
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, Mistress and Minstrel, sentence 17

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The housekeeping in the roomy dwelling beside the sea would have been shabbily attended to had it not been for her daily care; and the sun would have shone but seldom in the Frozen Land \[B\] had not the Maid of Beauty encouraged it with her smiles.

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**Who acts:** housekeeping, Maid, Nature · **What happens:** dwell, attend, have, not be, shine, encourage · **To what, where:** sea, housekeeping, sun, Frozen Land

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This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, Mistress and Minstrel. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (housekeeping, Maid, Nature), 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:pg66819:2:17
# text = The housekeeping in the roomy dwelling beside the sea would have been shabbily attended to had it not been for her daily care; and the sun would have shone but seldom in the Frozen Land [B] had not the Maid of Beauty encouraged it with her smiles.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	housekeeping	housekeeping	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	roomy	roomy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	dwelling	dwell	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	acl	_	_
7	beside	beside	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
10	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
11	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	aux	_	_
12	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	14	aux:pass	_	_
13	shabbily	shabbily	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	attended	attend	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	had	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	advcl	_	_
17	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obj	_	_
18	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	23	advmod	_	_
19	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	23	cop	_	_
20	for	for	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
22	daily	daily	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	care	care	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	30	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nsubj:pass	_	_
28	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
29	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	30	aux	_	_
30	shone	shine	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	conj	_	_
31	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
32	seldom	seldom	ADV	RB	_	30	conj	_	_
33	in	in	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
35	Frozen	Frozen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	36	compound	_	_
36	Land	Land	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	_
37	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	38	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	B	B	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	36	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	38	punct	_	_
40	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	46	aux	_	_
41	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	43	advmod	_	_
42	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
43	Maid	Maid	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	46	nsubj	_	_
44	of	of	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
45	Beauty	Beauty	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	43	nmod	_	_
46	encouraged	encourage	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	conj	_	_
47	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	46	obj	_	_
48	with	with	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
49	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	50	nmod:poss	_	_
50	smiles	smile	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	46	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **dwell** | gerund | the housekeeping in the roomy *not said here* |  |  | the sea |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme beside sea=Location |
| 2 | **attend** | would · perfect · passive |  | the housekeeping in the roomy |  |  |  | shabbily *property* | vn attend-107.4-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Goal |
| 3 | **have** | to-infinitive |  | housekeeping |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
| 4 | **not** **is** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | for Nature's daily care; Nature *nmod:poss* | tree rules |
| 5 | **shine** | would · perfect · passive |  | the sun |  | the Frozen Land |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=Theme |
| 6 | **encourage** | past | the Maid of Beauty | housekeeping |  |  |  | with Nature's smiles | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 7 | **smile** |  | Nature |  |  |  |  |  | nom smile «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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