--- title: His bellows roared and his anvil tinkled sweet music, and a song bur… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics description: His bellows roared and his anvil tinkled sweet music, and a song burst from his lips as he welded and wrought and gave shape to wonderful things. Who acts: bellows, anvil, elf. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bellows, anvil, elf), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg66819:20:4 # text = His bellows roared and his anvil tinkled sweet music, and a song burst from his lips as he welded and wrought and gave shape to wonderful things. 1 His his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 2 nmod:poss _ _ 2 bellows bellow NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 roared roar VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 and and CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 5 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 6 nmod:poss _ _ 6 anvil anvil NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 7 tinkled tinkle VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 8 sweet sweet ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 music music NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 13 song song NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 compound _ _ 14 burst burst NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 15 from from ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 17 nmod:poss _ _ 17 lips lip NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 nmod _ _ 18 as as SCONJ IN _ 20 mark _ _ 19 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 20 welded weld VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 advcl _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 22 wrought wrought ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 conj _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 24 gave give VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 25 shape shape NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obj _ _ 26 to to ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 wonderful wonderful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ _ 28 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 29 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **roar** | past | elf's bellows | a song burst from elf's lips | | | | | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **tinkle** | past | elf's anvil | sweet music | | | | | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location music=Theme | | 3 | **weld** | past | elf | | | | | | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **give** | past | elf's bellows *not said here* | shape | wonderful things | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent shape=Theme to thing=Recipient | | 5 | **bellow** | | elf | | | | | | nom bellow «communication intransitive»: poss=agent | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66819/20/3/) - next →: [sentence 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66819/20/5/) - ↑ back to [The Unexpected Journey](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66819/20/)