--- title: The Maid of Beauty was busy at her housework, sweeping, spinning, ba… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics description: The Maid of Beauty was busy at her housework, sweeping, spinning, baking, weaving. Who acts: Maid. 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/pg66819/22/9/) [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/) / 9 # The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Barking Dogs, sentence 9 The Maid of Beauty was busy at her housework, sweeping, spinning, baking, weaving. **Who acts:** Maid · **What happens:** be, sweep, spin, bake, weave · **To what, where:** housework 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 (Maid), 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:pg66819:22:9 # text = The Maid of Beauty was busy at her housework, sweeping, spinning, baking, weaving. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 Maid Maid PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 3 of of ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 Beauty Beauty PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 5 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 6 busy busy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 7 at at ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 9 nmod:poss _ _ 9 housework housework NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 11 sweeping sweep VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 6 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 13 spinning spin VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 11 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 15 baking bake VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 11 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 17 weaving weave VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 15 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 18 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | past | the Maid of Beauty | | | Maid's housework | | busy *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **sweep** | gerund | the Maid of Beauty *not said here* | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **spin** | gerund | the Maid of Beauty *not said here* | | | | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **bake** | gerund | the Maid of Beauty *not said here* | | | | | | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 5 | **weave** | gerund | the Maid of Beauty *not said here* | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66819/22/8/) - next →: [sentence 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66819/22/10/) - ↑ back to [The Barking Dogs](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66819/22/)