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title: But sister Anniki shivers with cold and draws nearer, her cheeks pal… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: But sister Anniki shivers with cold and draws nearer, her cheeks pale and her limbs trembling. Who acts: sister, limbs. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, A Dreadful Vengeance, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, A Dreadful Vengeance, sentence 48

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But sister Anniki shivers with cold and draws nearer, her cheeks pale and her limbs trembling.

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**Who acts:** sister, limbs · **What happens:** shiver, draw, tremble

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This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, A Dreadful Vengeance. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sister, limbs), 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:pg66819:30:48
# text = But sister Anniki shivers with cold and draws nearer, her cheeks pale and her limbs trembling.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	sister	sister	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	Anniki	Anniki	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
4	shivers	shiver	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	obl	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	draws	draw	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
9	nearer	near	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	8	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	cheeks	cheek	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	_
13	pale	pale	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
15	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	limbs	limb	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nsubj	_	_
17	trembling	tremble	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **shiver** | present | sister |  |  |  |  | with cold | vn body\_internal\_states-40.6 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **draw** | present | sister *not said here* |  |  |  |  | near *property* | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **tremble** | gerund | Anniki's limbs |  |  |  |  |  | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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