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title: She spun their six white fleeces into snowy yarn, and of the yarn sh… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: She spun their six white fleeces into snowy yarn, and of the yarn she wove enough cloth for six warm garments. Who acts: Maid. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, Mistress and Minstrel, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, Mistress and Minstrel, sentence 20

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She spun their six white fleeces into snowy yarn, and of the yarn she wove enough cloth for six warm garments.

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**Who acts:** Maid · **What happens:** spin, weave · **To what, where:** six white fleeces, snowy yarn, enough cloth

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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 (Maid), 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:pg66819:2:20
# text = She spun their six white fleeces into snowy yarn, and of the yarn she wove enough cloth for six warm garments.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	spun	spin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
4	six	six	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
5	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	fleeces	fleece	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
7	into	into	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	snowy	snowy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	yarn	yarn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	yarn	yarn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
15	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	wove	weave	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
17	enough	enough	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	cloth	cloth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
19	for	for	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	six	six	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	22	nummod	_	_
21	warm	warm	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	garments	garment	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **spin** | past | Maid | lambs's six white fleeces |  | snowy yarn |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent fleece=Theme into yarn=Trajectory |
| 2 | **weave** | past | Maid | enough cloth |  |  |  | of the yarn; for six warm garments | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent cloth=Product for garment=Beneficiary |

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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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