--- title: Ilmarinen looked down into his sister’s dark eyes and answered, “If… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics description: Ilmarinen looked down into his sister’s dark eyes and answered, “If what you tell me is worth anything I will give you all that you have asked for—finger rings, earrings, brooch, comb, and five or six beautiful girdles. Who acts: Ilmarinen, you. 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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 (Ilmarinen, you), 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:pg66819:20:54 # text = Ilmarinen looked down into his sister’s dark eyes and answered, “If what you tell me is worth anything I will give you all that you have asked for—finger rings, earrings, brooch, comb, and five or six beautiful girdles. 1 Ilmarinen Ilmarinen PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 looked look VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 down down ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ 4 into into ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 5 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 6 nmod:poss _ _ 6 sister sister NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 7 ’s 's PART POS _ 6 case _ _ 8 dark dark ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 eyes eye NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obl _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 11 answered answer VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 13 “ " PUNCT `` _ 15 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 14 If if SCONJ IN _ 15 mark _ _ 15 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 11 parataxis _ _ 16 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 17 tell tell VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 acl:relcl _ _ 18 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 17 iobj _ _ 19 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 cop _ _ 20 worth worth ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 21 anything anything PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 15 nsubj _ _ 22 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ _ 23 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 24 aux _ _ 24 give give VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 21 acl:relcl _ _ 25 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 24 iobj _ _ 26 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 30 advmod _ _ 27 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 30 obj _ _ 28 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 30 nsubj _ _ 29 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 30 aux _ _ 30 asked ask VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 24 advcl _ _ 31 for for ADP IN _ 34 case _ SpaceAfter=No 32 — - PUNCT : _ 34 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 33 finger finger NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 compound _ _ 34 rings ring NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 35 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 36 earrings earring NOUN NNS Number=Plur 34 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 37 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 38 brooch brooch NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 39 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 40 comb comb NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 41 , , PUNCT , _ 47 punct _ _ 42 and and CCONJ CC _ 47 cc _ _ 43 five five NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 47 nummod _ _ 44 or or CCONJ CC _ 45 cc _ _ 45 six six NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 43 conj _ _ 46 beautiful beautiful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 47 amod _ _ 47 girdles girdle NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 48 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **look down** | past | Ilmarinen | five beautiful girdles | | | | into Ilmarinen's sister's dark eyes; down *property* | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent into eye=Theme | | 2 | **answer** *speech: assert* | past | Ilmarinen *not said here* | | | | | what anything *parataxis* | tree rules | | 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | present | you | | Ilmarinen | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient | | 4 | **is** *in a quote* | present | | | | | | worth *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **give** *in a quote* | future | Ilmarinen | | you | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme | | 6 | **ask** *speech: ask* *in a quote* | present · perfect | you | that | | | | for finger rings and earrings and brooch and comb | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent that=Recipient | 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 53](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66819/20/53/) - next →: [sentence 55](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66819/20/55/) - ↑ back to [The Unexpected Journey](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66819/20/)