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title: And Anniki, maid of the morning, flees shrieking through the gateway… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: And Anniki, maid of the morning, flees shrieking through the gateway, is seized by cruel jaws, is devoured—no magic skill of hers availing to avert her doom. Who acts: Anniki, cruel jaws, magic skill, maid. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, A Dreadful Vengea
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, A Dreadful Vengeance, sentence 70

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And Anniki, maid of the morning, flees shrieking through the gateway, is seized by cruel jaws, is devoured—no magic skill of hers availing to avert her doom.

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**Who acts:** Anniki, cruel jaws, magic skill, maid · **What happens:** flee, shriek, seize, devour, avail, avert · **To what, where:** gateway, Anniki, magic skill, doom

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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 (Anniki, cruel jaws, magic skill, maid), 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:pg66819:30:70
# text = And Anniki, maid of the morning, flees shrieking through the gateway, is seized by cruel jaws, is devoured—no magic skill of hers availing to avert her doom.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
2	Anniki	Anniki	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	maid	maid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	flees	flee	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	acl:relcl	_	_
10	shrieking	shriek	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	9	xcomp	_	_
11	through	through	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	gateway	gateway	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
15	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux:pass	_	_
16	seized	seize	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
17	by	by	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	cruel	cruel	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	jaws	jaw	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux:pass	_	_
22	devoured	devour	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	26	det	_	_
25	magic	magic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	skill	skill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	hers	her	PRON	PRP	Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod	_	_
29	availing	avail	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	26	acl	_	_
30	to	to	PART	TO	_	31	mark	_	_
31	avert	avert	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	xcomp	_	_
32	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	33	nmod:poss	_	_
33	doom	doom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **flee** | present | Anniki *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **shriek** | gerund | Anniki *not said here* |  |  | the gateway |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through gateway=Location |
| 3 | **seize** | present · passive | cruel jaws | Anniki |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme |
| 4 | **devour** | present · passive | cruel jaws *not said here* | no magic skill of maid |  |  |  |  | vn devour-39.4 «NP V NP» |
| 5 | **avail** | gerund | no magic skill of maid *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **avert** | to-infinitive | no magic skill of maid *not said here* | maid's doom |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **doom** |  | maid |  |  |  |  |  | nom doom «event transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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