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title: The Maid of Beauty drew back; her cheeks blushed crimson and her eye… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: The Maid of Beauty drew back; her cheeks blushed crimson and her eyes flashed fire as she answered: Who acts: Maid, cheeks, eyes, eye. 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 55

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The Maid of Beauty drew back; her cheeks blushed crimson and her eyes flashed fire as she answered:

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**Who acts:** Maid, cheeks, eyes, eye · **What happens:** draw back, blush, flash, answer · **To what, where:** crimson, fire

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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 (Maid, cheeks, eyes, eye), 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:pg66819:24:55
# text = The Maid of Beauty drew back; her cheeks blushed crimson and her eyes flashed fire as she answered:
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Maid	Maid	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Beauty	Beauty	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	drew	draw	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	back	back	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	cheeks	cheek	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
10	blushed	blush	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
11	crimson	crimson	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
13	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj	_	_
15	flashed	flash	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
16	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
17	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
18	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	answered	answer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **draw back** | past | the Maid of Beauty |  |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **blush** | past | Maid's cheeks | crimson |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **flash** | past | Maid's eyes | fire |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent fire=Theme |
| 4 | **answer** *speech: assert* | past | eye |  |  |  |  |  | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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