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title: Quickly the Minstrel checked his reindeer steed; quickly, and in won… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: Quickly the Minstrel checked his reindeer steed; quickly, and in wonder, he lifted his eyes and looked aloft. Who acts: Minstrel. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Maid of Beauty, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Maid of Beauty, sentence 14

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Quickly the Minstrel checked his reindeer steed; quickly, and in wonder, he lifted his eyes and looked aloft.

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**Who acts:** Minstrel · **What happens:** check, lift, look · **To what, where:** reindeer steed, eyes, wonder

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This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Maid of Beauty. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Minstrel), 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:pg66819:3:14
# text = Quickly the Minstrel checked his reindeer steed; quickly, and in wonder, he lifted his eyes and looked aloft.
1	Quickly	quickly	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	Minstrel	Minstrel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	checked	check	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
6	reindeer	reindeer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	steed	steed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	9	punct	_	_
9	quickly	quickly	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	wonder	wonder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
15	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	lifted	lift	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
17	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obj	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	conj	_	_
21	aloft	aloft	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **check** | past | the Minstrel | Minstrel's reindeer steed |  |  |  | quickly *property* | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent steed=Theme |
| 2 | **lift** | past | Minstrel | Minstrel's eyes |  | wonder |  |  | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent eye=Theme in wonder=Destination |
| 3 | **look** | past | Minstrel *not said here* |  |  |  |  | aloft *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |

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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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