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title: The smoke curled lightly upward, the coals grew redder, the heat of… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: The smoke curled lightly upward, the coals grew redder, the heat of the fire increased. Who acts: smoke, fire. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Barking Dogs, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Barking Dogs, sentence 123

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The smoke curled lightly upward, the coals grew redder, the heat of the fire increased.

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**Who acts:** smoke, fire · **What happens:** curl, grow, increase · **To what, where:** smoke, redder

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This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Barking Dogs. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (smoke, fire), 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:pg66819:22:123
# text = The smoke curled lightly upward, the coals grew redder, the heat of the fire increased.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	smoke	smoke	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
3	curled	curl	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl	_	_
4	lightly	lightly	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	upward	upward	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	coals	coal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
9	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	redder	redder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	heat	heat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
14	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
17	increased	increase	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **curl** | participle |  | the smoke *not said here* |  |  |  | lightly, upward *property* | vn coil-9.6-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **grow** | past | the smoke | redder and the heat |  |  |  | the coals *nsubj* | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location redder=Theme |
| 3 | **increase** | past | the fire |  |  |  |  |  | vn caused\_calibratable\_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |

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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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