--- title: “It is fresh and hot, and far too good for such as you; keep the gre… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics description: “It is fresh and hot, and far too good for such as you; keep the green leaves over it till you’re ready to eat, for the flies are many and very bad to-day.” Who acts: luncheon, you. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (luncheon, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg66819:29:39 # text = “It is fresh and hot, and far too good for such as you; keep the green leaves over it till you’re ready to eat, for the flies are many and very bad to-day.” 1 “ " PUNCT `` _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 It it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ _ 4 fresh fresh ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 5 and and CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ _ 6 hot hot ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 9 far far ADV RB Degree=Pos 11 advmod _ _ 10 too too ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ _ 11 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 parataxis _ _ 12 for for ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 13 such such ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP 15 case _ _ 14 as as ADP IN _ 13 fixed _ _ 15 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 11 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 16 ; ; PUNCT : _ 17 punct _ _ 17 keep keep VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 19 green green ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 20 leaves leaf NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 obj _ _ 21 over over ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 22 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 obl _ _ 23 till till SCONJ IN _ 25 mark _ _ 24 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 25 ’re be VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 advcl _ _ 26 ready ready ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 xcomp _ _ 27 to to PART TO _ 28 mark _ _ 28 eat eat VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 26 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 29 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 30 for for ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 flies fly NOUN NNS Number=Plur 34 obl _ _ 33 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 34 cop _ _ 34 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 obl _ _ 35 and and CCONJ CC _ 37 cc _ _ 36 very very ADV RB _ 37 advmod _ _ 37 bad bad ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 34 conj _ _ 38 to to ADP IN _ 40 case _ SpaceAfter=No 39 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 38 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 40 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 41 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 42 ” " PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** *in a quote* | present | luncheon | | | | | fresh *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **be** *in a quote* | | luncheon *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **keep** *in a quote* | infinitive | | the green leaves | | luncheon | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent leaf=Theme over it=Location | | 4 | **does** *in a quote* | present | you | | | | | ready *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **eat** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **is** *in a quote* | present | | | | | | for the flies; many *property* | tree rules | | 7 | **be** *in a quote* | | | | | | day | | tree rules | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 38](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66819/29/38/) - next →: [sentence 40](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66819/29/40/) - ↑ back to [The Slave Boy](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66819/29/)