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title: It rose quickly, it leaped high into the air and with its long finge… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: It rose quickly, it leaped high into the air and with its long fingers clutched at Ilmarinen. Who acts: sprite. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Great Pike, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Great Pike, sentence 79

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It rose quickly, it leaped high into the air and with its long fingers clutched at Ilmarinen.

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**Who acts:** sprite · **What happens:** rise, leap, clutch · **To what, where:** air, Ilmarinen

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This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Great Pike. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sprite), 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:pg66819:25:79
# text = It rose quickly, it leaped high into the air and with its long fingers clutched at Ilmarinen.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	rose	rise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	quickly	quickly	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	leaped	leap	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
7	high	high	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	6	advmod	_	_
8	into	into	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
12	with	with	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
14	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	fingers	finger	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	_
16	clutched	clutch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
17	at	at	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	Ilmarinen	Ilmarinen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rise** | past | sprite |  |  |  |  | quickly *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **leap** | past | sprite |  |  | the air |  | high *property* | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into air=Destination |
| 3 | **clutch** | past | sprite *not said here* |  |  | Ilmarinen |  | with sprite's long fingers | vn hold-15.1-1 «NP V NP»: 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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