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title: None of your jesting;” and Anniki stamped her foot angrily, while sh… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: None of your jesting;” and Anniki stamped her foot angrily, while she gave her brother a look which told him more plainly than words that this was no unimportant matter. Who acts: None, Anniki, look, this. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Unexpected Jou
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Unexpected Journey, sentence 38

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None of your jesting;” and Anniki stamped her foot angrily, while she gave her brother a look which told him more plainly than words that this was no unimportant matter.

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**Who acts:** None, Anniki, look, this · **What happens:** stamp, give, tell, be · **To what, where:** foot, look, brother, kiss, unimportant matter · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Unexpected Journey. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (None, Anniki, look, this), 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:pg66819:20:38
# text = None of your jesting;” and Anniki stamped her foot angrily, while she gave her brother a look which told him more plainly than words that this was no unimportant matter.
1	None	none	PRON	NN	PronType=Neg	9	nsubj	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	jesting	jesting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	1	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	Anniki	Anniki	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
9	stamped	stamp	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	foot	foot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	angrily	angrily	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
15	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
17	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	iobj	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	look	look	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
21	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	22	nsubj	_	_
22	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	acl:relcl	_	_
23	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	iobj	_	_
24	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	25	advmod	_	_
25	plainly	plainly	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
26	than	than	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obl	_	_
28	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	33	mark	_	_
29	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	33	nsubj	_	_
30	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	33	cop	_	_
31	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	33	det	_	_
32	unimportant	unimportant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	matter	matter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stamp** *in a quote* | past | None of your jesting  Anniki | Anniki's foot |  |  |  | angrily *property* | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent foot=Destination |
| 2 | **give** *in a quote* | past | Anniki | a look | Anniki's brother |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent brother=Recipient look=Theme |
| 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | past | a look |  | kiss |  |  | plainly *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient |
| 4 | **is a** *in a quote* | past | this | no unimportant matter |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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