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title: And there was the ale, the foaming white ale which the Mistress hers… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: And there was the ale, the foaming white ale which the Mistress herself had brewed—it was handed round in great tankards so that each of the heroes present might drink his fill. Who acts: ale, each. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Wedding Feast, with i
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Wedding Feast, sentence 96

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And there was the ale, the foaming white ale which the Mistress herself had brewed—it was handed round in great tankards so that each of the heroes present might drink his fill.

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**Who acts:** ale, each · **What happens:** be, brew, hand round, present, drink · **To what, where:** Mistress, ale, great tankards, fill

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This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Wedding Feast. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (ale, each), 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:pg66819:27:96
# text = And there was the ale, the foaming white ale which the Mistress herself had brewed—it was handed round in great tankards so that each of the heroes present might drink his fill.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	3	expl	_	_
3	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	ale	ale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
8	foaming	foaming	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
9	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	ale	ale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	appos	_	_
11	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	16	obj	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	Mistress	mistress	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj:pass	_	_
14	herself	herself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	16	nsubj:pass	_	_
15	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	brewed	brew	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj:pass	_	_
19	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux:pass	_	_
20	handed	hand	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	conj	_	_
21	round	round	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	tankards	tankard	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obl	_	_
25	so	so	SCONJ	IN	ExtPos=SCONJ	31	mark	_	_
26	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	25	fixed	_	_
27	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	31	nsubj	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	heroes	hero	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	nmod	_	_
31	present	present	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	advcl	_	_
32	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	33	aux	_	_
33	drink	drink	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	31	ccomp	_	_
34	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	35	nmod:poss	_	_
35	fill	fill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | past | the ale |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **brew** | past · perfect · passive |  | the Mistress |  |  |  | the foaming white ale *obj*; Hero *nsubj:pass* | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: subject=Beneficiary which=Product |
| 3 | **hand round** | past · passive |  | ale |  | great tankards |  | round *property* | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 4 | **present** | present | each of the heroes |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **drink** | might | each of the heroes *not said here* | bridegroom's fill |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fill=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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