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title: Her face is fairer than the moonlight on a midsummer eve; her eyes a… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: Her face is fairer than the moonlight on a midsummer eve; her eyes are like two suns; her lips are like twin berries, red and luscious; her voice is sweeter than the song of the meadow lark. Who acts: face, eyes, lips, voice. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Smithy, sentence 83

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Her face is fairer than the moonlight on a midsummer eve; her eyes are like two suns; her lips are like twin berries, red and luscious; her voice is sweeter than the song of the meadow lark.

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**Who acts:** face, eyes, lips, voice, meadow lark · **What happens:** be, sing

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This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Smithy. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (face, eyes, lips, voice), 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:pg66819:7:83
# text = Her face is fairer than the moonlight on a midsummer eve; her eyes are like two suns; her lips are like twin berries, red and luscious; her voice is sweeter than the song of the meadow lark.
1	Her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	fairer	fair	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	0	root	_	_
5	than	than	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	moonlight	moonlight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	on	on	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	midsummer	midsummer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	eve	eve	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
13	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nsubj	_	_
15	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
16	like	like	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	18	nummod	_	_
18	suns	sun	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	25	punct	_	_
20	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	lips	lip	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nsubj	_	_
22	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	cop	_	_
23	like	like	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	twin	twin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	berries	berry	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
27	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	conj	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	luscious	luscious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	34	punct	_	_
31	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	32	nmod:poss	_	_
32	voice	voice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nsubj	_	_
33	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	34	cop	_	_
34	sweeter	sweet	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	4	conj	_	_
35	than	than	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	song	song	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	_
38	of	of	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
40	meadow	meadow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	compound	_	_
41	lark	lark	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | maiden's face |  |  |  |  | than the moonlight on a midsummer eve; fair *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | present | maiden's eyes |  |  |  |  | like two suns | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | present | maiden's lips |  |  |  |  | like twin berries | tree rules |
| 4 | **be** |  | maiden's lips *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **is** | present | maiden's voice |  |  |  |  | than the song of the meadow lark; sweet *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **sing** |  | the meadow lark |  |  |  |  |  | nom song «communication intransitive»: of=agent |

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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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