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title: She looked out of the door and saw the first rays of the sun dancing… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: She looked out of the door and saw the first rays of the sun dancing and glancing upon the uneasy surface of the sea. Who acts: maiden. 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 28

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She looked out of the door and saw the first rays of the sun dancing and glancing upon the uneasy surface of the sea.

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**Who acts:** maiden · **What happens:** look out, see, glance, ray · **To what, where:** door, first rays, sun dancing

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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 (maiden), 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:pg66819:2:28
# text = She looked out of the door and saw the first rays of the sun dancing and glancing upon the uneasy surface of the sea.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	out	out	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	11	amod	_	_
11	rays	ray	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	dancing	dancing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	glancing	glance	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	15	conj	_	_
18	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	uneasy	uneasy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	surface	surface	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look out** | past | maiden | the door |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **see** | past | maiden *not said here* | the first rays of the sun dancing |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer ray=Stimulus |
| 3 | **glance** | gerund | maiden *not said here* |  |  |  |  | upon the uneasy surface of the sea | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent upon surface=Theme |
| 4 | **ray** |  |  | the sun dancing |  |  |  |  | nom ray «phenomenon 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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