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title: He looked about for the reindeer which the Mistress had lent him and… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: He looked about for the reindeer which the Mistress had lent him and which had wandered into the woods while he was working magic. Who acts: misfortune. 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 ever
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Maid of Beauty, sentence 97

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He looked about for the reindeer which the Mistress had lent him and which had wandered into the woods while he was working magic.

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**Who acts:** misfortune · **What happens:** look, lend, wander, work · **To what, where:** Mistress, woods, magic

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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 (misfortune), 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:pg66819:3:97
# text = He looked about for the reindeer which the Mistress had lent him and which had wandered into the woods while he was working magic.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	about	about	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
4	for	for	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	reindeer	reindeer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
7	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	11	obj	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	Mistress	mistress	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj:pass	_	_
10	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	lent	lend	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	acl:relcl	_	_
12	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obj	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
14	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	16	nsubj:pass	_	_
15	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	wandered	wander	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	conj	_	_
17	into	into	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	woods	wood	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	_
20	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
21	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
22	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
23	working	work	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	16	advcl	_	_
24	magic	magic	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look** | past | misfortune |  |  |  |  | for the reindeer; about *property* | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for reindeer=Theme |
| 2 | **lend** | past · perfect · passive |  | the Mistress |  |  |  | the reindeer *obj*; misfortune *obj* | tree rules |
| 3 | **wander** | past · perfect · passive |  |  |  | the woods |  | which *nsubj:pass* | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Trajectory |
| 4 | **work** | past · progressive | misfortune | magic |  |  |  |  | vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: agent=Agent magic=Material |

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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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