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title: Half-grown boys and little girls pushed shyly forward—all curious to… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: Half-grown boys and little girls pushed shyly forward—all curious to gaze on the wonderful kantele, all anxious to hear its sweet music. Who acts: grown boys. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Kantele, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Kantele, sentence 84

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Half-grown boys and little girls pushed shyly forward—all curious to gaze on the wonderful kantele, all anxious to hear its sweet music.

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**Who acts:** grown boys · **What happens:** grow, push, gaze, hear · **To what, where:** sweet music

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This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Kantele. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (grown boys), 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:pg66819:34:84
# text = Half-grown boys and little girls pushed shyly forward—all curious to gaze on the wonderful kantele, all anxious to hear its sweet music.
1	Half	half	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac	3	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	grown	grow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	amod	_	_
4	boys	boy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
6	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	girls	girl	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	_
8	pushed	push	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	shyly	shyly	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
10	forward	forward	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	13	det	_	_
13	curious	curious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	parataxis	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	gaze	gaze	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	xcomp	_	_
16	on	on	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	wonderful	wonderful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	kantele	kantele	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	22	det	_	_
22	anxious	anxious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
23	to	to	PART	TO	_	24	mark	_	_
24	hear	hear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	xcomp	_	_
25	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
26	sweet	sweet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	music	music	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grow** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | Half *compound* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **push** | past | grown boys and little girls |  |  |  |  | forward, shyly *property* | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **gaze** | to-infinitive | grown boys and little girls *not said here* |  |  |  |  | on the wonderful kantele | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent on kantele=Theme |
| 4 | **hear** | to-infinitive | grown boys and little girls *not said here* | kantele's sweet music |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer music=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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