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title: “Tell me, princess of the rainbow, do you remember when I forged the… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: “Tell me, princess of the rainbow, do you remember when I forged the Sampo and hammered out its lid of many colors? Who acts: you, hero. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Field of Serpents, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Field of Serpents, sentence 48

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“Tell me, princess of the rainbow, do you remember when I forged the Sampo and hammered out its lid of many colors?

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**Who acts:** you, hero · **What happens:** tell, remember, forge, hammer out · **To what, where:** princess, hero, Sampo, lid · **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 Field of Serpents. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, hero), 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:pg66819:24:48
# text = “Tell me, princess of the rainbow, do you remember when I forged the Sampo and hammered out its lid of many colors?
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Tell	tell	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	iobj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	rainbow	rainbow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
11	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	remember	remember	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
13	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	15	advmod	_	_
14	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	forged	forge	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	ccomp	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	Sampo	Sampo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	hammered	hammer	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	conj	_	_
20	out	out	ADP	RP	_	19	compound:prt	_	_
21	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	lid	lid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	colors	color	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | imperative | you *not said here* | princess of the rainbow | the hero *= hero* |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient |
| 2 | **remember** *in a quote* | present · do-support | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 3 | **forge** *in a quote* | past | the hero *= hero* | the Sampo |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sampo=Product |
| 4 | **hammer out** *in a quote* | participle | the hero *= hero* *not said here* | Sampo's lid of many colors |  |  |  |  | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lid=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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