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title: On the farther side of the great fen there was a grove of pine trees… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: On the farther side of the great fen there was a grove of pine trees, and in the midst of the grove was a green, grassy space as round as the moon and as level as the sea. Who acts: grove. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Tree of Magic, with its depende
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Tree of Magic, sentence 40

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On the farther side of the great fen there was a grove of pine trees, and in the midst of the grove was a green, grassy space as round as the moon and as level as the sea.

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**Who acts:** grove · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** farther side, green grassy space, midst

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This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Tree of Magic. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (grove), 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:pg66819:6:40
# text = On the farther side of the great fen there was a grove of pine trees, and in the midst of the grove was a green, grassy space as round as the moon and as level as the sea.
1	On	on	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	farther	far	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	4	amod	_	_
4	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	fen	fen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
9	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	10	expl	_	_
10	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	grove	grove	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	pine	pine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	midst	midst	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	grove	grove	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	_
24	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	cop	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
26	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
28	grassy	grassy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	space	space	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	_
30	as	as	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
31	round	round	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
32	as	as	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	moon	moon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
36	as	as	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
37	level	level	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	conj	_	_
38	as	as	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | past | a grove of pine trees and a green grassy space |  |  | the farther side of the great fen; there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on side=Location |
| 2 | **is a** | past | a grove of pine trees and a green grassy space *not said here* | a green grassy space |  | the midst of the grove |  |  | tree rules |

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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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