--- title: With lips drawn tightly over her toothless mouth, Dame Louhi stood a… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics description: With lips drawn tightly over her toothless mouth, Dame Louhi stood at her post, silent and determined, and but one thought filled the minds and hearts of her courageous crew—the thought to serve her and obey her. Who acts: Dame, one thought. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Dame, one thought), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg66819:37:20 # text = With lips drawn tightly over her toothless mouth, Dame Louhi stood at her post, silent and determined, and but one thought filled the minds and hearts of her courageous crew—the thought to serve her and obey her. 1 With with ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 lips lip NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 obl _ _ 3 drawn draw VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 2 acl _ _ 4 tightly tightly ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 5 over over ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 6 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 8 nmod:poss _ _ 7 toothless toothless ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 mouth mouth NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 10 Dame Dame PROPN NNP Number=Sing 12 nsubj _ _ 11 Louhi Louhi PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 flat _ _ 12 stood stand VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 13 at at ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 15 nmod:poss _ _ 15 post post NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 17 silent silent ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 19 determined determined ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 22 but but CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 23 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 24 nummod _ _ 24 thought thought NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nsubj _ _ 25 filled fill VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 12 conj _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 minds mind NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 obj _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 29 hearts heart NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 conj _ _ 30 of of ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 31 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 33 nmod:poss _ _ 32 courageous courageous ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 amod _ _ 33 crew crew NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 34 — - PUNCT : _ 36 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 35 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 36 thought thought NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl _ _ 37 to to PART TO _ 38 mark _ _ 38 serve serve VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 36 acl _ _ 39 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 38 obj _ _ 40 and and CCONJ CC _ 41 cc _ _ 41 obey obey VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 38 conj _ _ 42 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 41 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 43 . . PUNCT . _ 12 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **draw** | participle | | lips *not said here* | | voyage's toothless mouth | | tightly *property* | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **stand** | past | Dame | the thought | | Dame's post | | with lips | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at post=Location | | 3 | **fill** | past | one thought | the minds and hearts of Dame's courageous crew | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent mind=Patient | | 4 | **serve** | to-infinitive | Dame *not said here* | thought | | | | | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Attribute | | 5 | **obey** | infinitive | Dame *not said here* | thought | | | | | vn abide\_by-93.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66819/37/19/) - next →: [sentence 21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66819/37/21/) - ↑ back to [The Pursuit](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66819/37/)