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title: Very beautiful was the magic mill, its resplendent sides embossed wi… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Flight, sentence 26

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Very beautiful was the magic mill, its resplendent sides embossed with gold and lined with silver; gorgeously beautiful was its rainbow cover, full of pictures of men and beasts and trees and flowers.

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**What happens:** be, emboss, line · **To what, where:** beautiful magic mill, resplendent sides, beautiful rainbow cover

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This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Flight. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:pg66819:36:26
# text = Very beautiful was the magic mill, its resplendent sides embossed with gold and lined with silver; gorgeously beautiful was its rainbow cover, full of pictures of men and beasts and trees and flowers.
1	Very	very	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	magic	magic	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	mill	mill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
9	resplendent	resplendent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	sides	side	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	conj	_	_
11	embossed	emboss	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	acl	_	_
12	with	with	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	lined	line	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	conj	_	_
16	with	with	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	silver	silver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
19	gorgeously	gorgeously	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
21	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	cop	_	_
22	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
23	rainbow	rainbow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	cover	cover	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
26	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	pictures	picture	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obl	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	nmod	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
32	beasts	beast	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	conj	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
34	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	conj	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
36	flowers	flower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past |  | the beautiful magic mill and cave's resplendent sides and cave's beautiful rainbow cover |  |  |  | cave's resplendent sides *conj* | tree rules |
| 2 | **emboss** | participle |  | cave's resplendent sides *not said here* |  |  |  | with gold | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent with gold=Theme |
| 3 | **line** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | with silver | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with silver=Theme |
| 4 | **is a** | past |  | cave's beautiful rainbow cover |  |  |  | cave *nmod:poss* | tree rules |

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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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