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title: Its body was glittering bright like fire, its mane and tail were glo… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: Its body was glittering bright like fire, its mane and tail were glowing red like the sun when it shines through the mists of the morning. Who acts: body, mane. 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 pragmat
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Field of Serpents, sentence 89

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Its body was glittering bright like fire, its mane and tail were glowing red like the sun when it shines through the mists of the morning.

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**Who acts:** body, mane · **What happens:** glitter, glow, shine, mist · **To what, where:** mists, morning

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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 (body, mane), 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:pg66819:24:89
# text = Its body was glittering bright like fire, its mane and tail were glowing red like the sun when it shines through the mists of the morning.
1	Its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	glittering	glitter	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	bright	bright	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	xcomp	_	_
6	like	like	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	mane	mane	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	tail	tail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
13	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	glowing	glow	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	conj	_	_
15	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	xcomp	_	_
16	like	like	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
19	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	21	advmod	_	_
20	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	shines	shine	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	advcl	_	_
22	through	through	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	mists	mist	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obl	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **glitter** | past · progressive | vapor's body |  |  |  |  | bright *property* | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **glow** | past · progressive | body's mane and tail |  |  |  |  | like the sun; red *property* | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **shine** | present | body |  |  | the mists of the morning |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through mist=Location |
| 4 | **mist** |  |  | the morning |  |  |  |  | nom mist «phenomenon transitive»: of=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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