--- title: “I want to play with my dolly; I want to put her to sleep. — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics description: “I want to play with my dolly; I want to put her to sleep. Who acts: Kuli. 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. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66819/22/62/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old No…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66819/) / [The Barking Dogs](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66819/22/) / 62 # The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Barking Dogs, sentence 62 “I want to play with my dolly; I want to put her to sleep. **Who acts:** Kuli · **What happens:** want, play, put, sleep · **To what, where:** Kuli 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 (Kuli), 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:pg66819:22:62 # text = “I want to play with my dolly; I want to put her to sleep. 1 “ " PUNCT `` _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 want want VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 to to PART TO _ 5 mark _ _ 5 play play VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 xcomp _ _ 6 with with ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 8 nmod:poss _ _ 8 dolly dolly NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 9 ; ; PUNCT : _ 11 punct _ _ 10 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj _ _ 11 want want VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 12 to to PART TO _ 13 mark _ _ 13 put put VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 xcomp _ _ 14 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 obj _ _ 15 to to PART TO _ 16 mark _ _ 16 sleep sleep VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 13 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 17 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **want** *in a quote* | present | Kuli | | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | | 2 | **play** *not said to happen, in a quote* | to-infinitive | Kuli *not said here* | | | | | with my dolly | vn play-114.2-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent with dolly=Theme | | 3 | **want** *in a quote* | present | Kuli | | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | | 4 | **put** *not said to happen, in a quote* | to-infinitive | Kuli *not said here* | | Kuli | | | | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent she=Goal | | 5 | **sleep** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | Kuli *not said here* | | | | | | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=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 61](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66819/22/61/) - next →: [sentence 63](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66819/22/63/) - ↑ back to [The Barking Dogs](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66819/22/)