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title: Hearing this, Iron came out of his lurking-places and without more a… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: Hearing this, Iron came out of his lurking-places and without more ado, bashfully followed the cunning Smith. Who acts: Iron. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Wicked Hornet, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Wicked Hornet, sentence 64

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Hearing this, Iron came out of his lurking-places and without more ado, bashfully followed the cunning Smith.

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**Who acts:** Iron · **What happens:** hear, come out, follow · **To what, where:** this, lurking places, Smith

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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 (Iron), 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:pg66819:5:64
# text = Hearing this, Iron came out of his lurking-places and without more ado, bashfully followed the cunning Smith.
1	Hearing	hear	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	_
2	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	1	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
4	Iron	Iron	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	out	out	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
8	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
9	lurking	lurking	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	places	place	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
13	without	without	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	15	amod	_	_
15	ado	ado	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	bashfully	bashfully	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	followed	follow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	cunning	cunning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod:desc	_	_
21	Smith	Smith	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hear** | gerund | Iron *not said here* | this |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer this=Stimulus |
| 2 | **come out** | past | Iron | Fear's lurking places and more ado |  |  |  |  | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient place=Result |
| 3 | **follow** | past | Iron *not said here* | the Smith  cunning |  |  |  | bashfully *property* | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent smith=Theme |

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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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