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title: Under the eaves above the smithy door an idler was sitting—a mischie… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: Under the eaves above the smithy door an idler was sitting—a mischief-making hornet who heard every word that the Smith said. Who acts: idler, making hornet, Smith. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Wicked Hornet, with its dependency tree and the pragmat
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Wicked Hornet, sentence 89

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Under the eaves above the smithy door an idler was sitting—a mischief-making hornet who heard every word that the Smith said.

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**Who acts:** idler, making hornet, Smith · **What happens:** sit, make, hear, say · **To what, where:** making hornet, eaves, word · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (idler, making hornet, 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:pg66819:5:89
# text = Under the eaves above the smithy door an idler was sitting—a mischief-making hornet who heard every word that the Smith said.
1	Under	under	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	eaves	eave	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	_
4	above	above	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	smithy	smithy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
8	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	idler	idler	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
10	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	sitting	sit	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
14	mischief	mischief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	making	make	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	17	amod	_	_
17	hornet	hornet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
18	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	19	nsubj	_	_
19	heard	hear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	acl:relcl	_	_
20	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	21	det	_	_
21	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
22	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	25	obj	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	Smith	Smith	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
25	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sit** | past · progressive | a idler | a making hornet |  | the eaves above the smithy door |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent under eave=Location |
| 2 | **make** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | mischief *compound* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
| 3 | **hear** | past | a making hornet | every word |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer word=Stimulus |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the Smith | every word |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent that=Topic |

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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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