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title: Then he made six girdles of rare and most wonderful beauty; nor did… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: Then he made six girdles of rare and most wonderful beauty; nor did he forget the comb and the brooch and some golden pins which he knew would please Anniki’s fancy. Who acts: master, comb. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Unexpected Journey, with its d
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Unexpected Journey, sentence 93

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Then he made six girdles of rare and most wonderful beauty; nor did he forget the comb and the brooch and some golden pins which he knew would please Anniki’s fancy.

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**Who acts:** master, comb · **What happens:** make, forget, know, fancy · **To what, where:** six girdles, golden pins · **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 (master, comb), 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:pg66819:20:93
# text = Then he made six girdles of rare and most wonderful beauty; nor did he forget the comb and the brooch and some golden pins which he knew would please Anniki’s fancy.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	six	six	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
5	girdles	girdle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
7	rare	rare	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	10	advmod	_	_
10	wonderful	wonderful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	conj	_	_
11	beauty	beauty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	16	cc	_	_
14	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
15	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	forget	forget	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	comb	comb	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nsubj	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	brooch	brooch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
23	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	25	det	_	_
24	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	pins	pin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	conj	_	_
26	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	28	obj	_	_
27	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
28	knew	know	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	acl:relcl	_	_
29	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	33	aux	_	_
30	please	please	INTJ	UH	_	33	discourse	_	_
31	Anniki	Anniki	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	’s	's	PART	POS	_	31	case	_	_
33	fancy	fancy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | past | master | six girdles of rare beauty |  |  | then |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent girdle=Product |
| 2 | **forget** | past · do-support | master |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **know** | past | master | some golden pins |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer which=Stimulus |
| 4 | **fancy** | would | the comb and the brooch and some golden pins |  |  |  |  | Anniki *nmod:poss* | 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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