---
title: Smith Ilmarinen stood thoughtfully, silently, beside the fire. — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: Smith Ilmarinen stood thoughtfully, silently, beside the fire. Who acts: Smith. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Recipe, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66819/9/1/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old No…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66819/) / [The Recipe](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66819/9/) / 1

# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Recipe, sentence 1

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Smith Ilmarinen stood thoughtfully, silently, beside the fire.

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** Smith · **What happens:** stand · **To what, where:** fire

<!-- .vabout -->
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Recipe. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Smith), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

<!-- .note-en -->
**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg66819:9:1
# text = Smith Ilmarinen stood thoughtfully, silently, beside the fire.
1	Smith	Smith	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	Ilmarinen	Ilmarinen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	thoughtfully	thoughtfully	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	silently	silently	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	beside	beside	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stand** | past | Smith |  |  | the fire |  | silently, thoughtfully *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent beside fire=Location |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [The Tempest, 78](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66819/8/78/)
- next →: [sentence 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66819/9/2/)
- ↑ back to [The Recipe](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66819/9/)