---
title: Where the paws of bears had plodded often, where the feet of wolves… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: Where the paws of bears had plodded often, where the feet of wolves had pattered, where the sharp hoofs of deer had trodden, there the timid metal, red, gray, yellow, black, peeped shyly out. Who acts: timid metal. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Wicke
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66819/5/35/)

<!-- 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 Wicked Hornet](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66819/5/) / 35

# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Wicked Hornet, sentence 35

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Where the paws of bears had plodded often, where the feet of wolves had pattered, where the sharp hoofs of deer had trodden, there the timid metal, red, gray, yellow, black, peeped shyly out.

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** timid metal · **What happens:** plod, patter, tread, peep · **To what, where:** paws, feet, sharp hoofs

<!-- .vabout -->
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Wicked Hornet. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (timid metal), 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:pg66819:5:35
# text = Where the paws of bears had plodded often, where the feet of wolves had pattered, where the sharp hoofs of deer had trodden, there the timid metal, red, gray, yellow, black, peeped shyly out.
1	Where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	7	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	paws	paw	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	bears	bear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
6	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	plodded	plod	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
8	often	often	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
10	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	16	advmod	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj:pass	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	wolves	wolf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nmod	_	_
15	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	pattered	patter	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
18	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	25	advmod	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	sharp	sharp	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	hoofs	hoof	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nsubj:pass	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	deer	deer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nmod	_	_
24	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
25	trodden	tread	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
27	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	40	expl	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	timid	timid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	metal	metal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
32	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
34	gray	gray	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
36	yellow	yellow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
38	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
40	peeped	peep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
41	shyly	shyly	ADV	RB	_	42	advmod	_	_
42	out	out	ADV	RB	_	40	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **plod** | past · perfect · passive |  | the paws of bears |  |  |  | often *property* | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Trajectory |
| 2 | **patter** | past · perfect · passive |  | the feet of wolves |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 3 | **tread** | past · perfect · passive |  | the sharp hoofs of deer |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 4 | **peep** | past | the timid metal |  |  | there |  | out *property* | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

<!-- .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 34](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66819/5/34/)
- next →: [sentence 36](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66819/5/36/)
- ↑ back to [The Wicked Hornet](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66819/5/)