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title: Then from a bird’s nest on the side of the cliff he drew up an egg w… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: Then from a bird’s nest on the side of the cliff he drew up an egg with a snare too fine for eyes to see. Who acts: hero. 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 56

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Then from a bird’s nest on the side of the cliff he drew up an egg with a snare too fine for eyes to see.

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**Who acts:** hero · **What happens:** draw up, see · **To what, where:** egg, nest

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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 (hero), 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:pg66819:3:56
# text = Then from a bird’s nest on the side of the cliff he drew up an egg with a snare too fine for eyes to see.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	14	advmod	_	_
2	from	from	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	bird	bird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	’s	's	PART	POS	_	4	case	_	_
6	nest	nest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
7	on	on	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	cliff	cliff	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
13	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	drew	draw	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
15	up	up	ADP	RP	_	14	compound:prt	_	_
16	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	egg	egg	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
18	with	with	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	snare	snare	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
21	too	too	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
23	for	for	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obl	_	_
25	to	to	PART	TO	_	26	mark	_	_
26	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **draw up** | past | hero | a egg |  | a bird's nest on the side of the cliff | then | with a snare | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent egg=Theme from nest=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **see** | to-infinitive | hero *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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