---
title: And so, from the rocks by the seaside he gathered flakes of gold, sc… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: And so, from the rocks by the seaside he gathered flakes of gold, scales of gold, nuggets of gold, until he had filled a basket almost as large as himself. Who acts: rocks, Beauty. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Golden Maiden, with its dependency tree
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66819/31/62/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old No…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66819/) / [The Golden Maiden](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66819/31/) / 62

# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Golden Maiden, sentence 62

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
And so, from the rocks by the seaside he gathered flakes of gold, scales of gold, nuggets of gold, until he had filled a basket almost as large as himself.

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** rocks, Beauty · **What happens:** gather, fill · **To what, where:** flakes, basket

<!-- .vabout -->
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 (rocks, Beauty), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

<!-- .note-en -->
**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg66819:31:62
# text = And so, from the rocks by the seaside he gathered flakes of gold, scales of gold, nuggets of gold, until he had filled a basket almost as large as himself.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
2	so	so	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
4	from	from	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	rocks	rock	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
7	by	by	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	seaside	seaside	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
10	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	gathered	gather	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	flakes	flake	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	scales	scale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	conj	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	nuggets	nugget	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	conj	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
24	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
25	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
26	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
27	filled	fill	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	11	conj	_	_
28	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	basket	basket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	_
30	almost	almost	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
31	as	as	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
32	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	advcl	_	_
33	as	as	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	32	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **gather** | past | the rocks by the seaside | flakes of gold and scales of gold and nuggets of gold |  |  |  | Beauty *nsubj* | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flake=Theme |
| 2 | **fill** | past · perfect | Beauty | a basket |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent basket=Patient |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [sentence 61](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66819/31/61/)
- next →: [sentence 63](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66819/31/63/)
- ↑ back to [The Golden Maiden](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66819/31/)