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title: Her eyes sparkled like precious stones and were blue as the summer s… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: Her eyes sparkled like precious stones and were blue as the summer sky, yet she saw nothing. Who acts: eyes, heat. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Golden Maiden, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Golden Maiden, sentence 102

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Her eyes sparkled like precious stones and were blue as the summer sky, yet she saw nothing.

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**Who acts:** eyes, heat · **What happens:** sparkle, be, see · **To what, where:** nothing

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This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Golden Maiden. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (eyes, heat), 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:pg66819:31:102
# text = Her eyes sparkled like precious stones and were blue as the summer sky, yet she saw nothing.
1	Her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	sparkled	sparkle	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
4	like	like	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	precious	precious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	stones	stone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
8	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
9	blue	blue	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	_
10	as	as	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	summer	summer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	sky	sky	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	yet	yet	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
18	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sparkle** | participle | heat's eyes |  |  |  |  | like precious stones | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | past | heat's eyes *not said here* |  |  |  |  | as the summer sky; blue *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **see** | past | heat | nothing |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer nothing=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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