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title: Then the tongs of bronze drew him forth from the flames, and twirled… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: Then the tongs of bronze drew him forth from the flames, and twirled him in the air, and threw him upon the anvil; and the hammer of stone beat him fiercely again and again until he shrieked with pain. Who acts: tongs, hammer, Smith. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Wicked Hornet, sentence 69

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Then the tongs of bronze drew him forth from the flames, and twirled him in the air, and threw him upon the anvil; and the hammer of stone beat him fiercely again and again until he shrieked with pain.

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**Who acts:** tongs, hammer, Smith · **What happens:** draw, twirl, throw, beat, shriek · **To what, where:** Smith, flames, air, anvil

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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 (tongs, hammer, Smith), 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:pg66819:5:69
# text = Then the tongs of bronze drew him forth from the flames, and twirled him in the air, and threw him upon the anvil; and the hammer of stone beat him fiercely again and again until he shrieked with pain.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	6	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	tongs	tong	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	bronze	bronze	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
6	drew	draw	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obj	_	_
8	forth	forth	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
9	from	from	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	flames	flame	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	twirled	twirl	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
15	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obj	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	threw	throw	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	parataxis	_	_
22	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	obj	_	_
23	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	anvil	anvil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	hammer	hammer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nsubj	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	stone	stone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	_
32	beat	beat	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
33	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	obj	_	_
34	fiercely	fiercely	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
35	again	again	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
37	again	again	ADV	RB	_	35	conj	_	_
38	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	40	mark	_	_
39	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	40	nsubj	_	_
40	shrieked	shriek	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	32	advcl	_	_
41	with	with	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
42	pain	pain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **draw** | past | the tongs of bronze | Smith |  | the flames | then | forth *property* | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent he=Theme from flame=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **twirl** | past | the tongs of bronze *not said here* | Smith |  | the air |  |  | vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: agent=Agent he=Material |
| 3 | **throw** | past |  | Smith |  | the anvil |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent he=Theme upon anvil=Destination |
| 4 | **beat** | past | the hammer of stone | Smith |  |  | again; again | fiercely *property* | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location he=Theme |
| 5 | **shriek** | past | Smith |  |  |  |  | with pain | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with pain=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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