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title: Wise old Louhi, grim and toothless, rose quickly and hastened to the… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: Wise old Louhi, grim and toothless, rose quickly and hastened to the door, chattering and mumbling and grumbling. Who acts: Wise old Louhi. 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 37

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Wise old Louhi, grim and toothless, rose quickly and hastened to the door, chattering and mumbling and grumbling.

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**Who acts:** Wise old Louhi · **What happens:** rise, hasten, chatter, mumble, grumble · **To what, where:** door

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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 (Wise old Louhi), 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:pg66819:2:37
# text = Wise old Louhi, grim and toothless, rose quickly and hastened to the door, chattering and mumbling and grumbling.
1	Wise	wise	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
2	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	Louhi	Louhi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	grim	grim	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	toothless	toothless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	rose	rise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	quickly	quickly	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	hastened	hasten	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	conj	_	_
13	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	chattering	chatter	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	12	advcl	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	mumbling	mumble	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	17	conj	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	grumbling	grumble	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	17	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rise** | past | Wise old Louhi |  |  |  |  | quickly *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **hasten** | participle | Wise old Louhi *not said here* |  |  | the door |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to door=Destination |
| 3 | **chatter** | gerund | Wise old Louhi *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **mumble** *speech: other* | gerund | Wise old Louhi *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **grumble** *speech: other* | gerund | Wise old Louhi *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn complain-37.8 «NP V»: agent=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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