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title: Right winsomely she came forward to greet him, her cheeks blushing r… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: Right winsomely she came forward to greet him, her cheeks blushing red, her eyes sparkling and joyous. Who acts: Beauty, cheeks, eyes. 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.
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Recipe, sentence 18

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Right winsomely she came forward to greet him, her cheeks blushing red, her eyes sparkling and joyous.

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**Who acts:** Beauty, cheeks, eyes · **What happens:** come forward, greet, blush, sparkle · **To what, where:** cheeks, Maid

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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 (Beauty, cheeks, eyes), 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:pg66819:9:18
# text = Right winsomely she came forward to greet him, her cheeks blushing red, her eyes sparkling and joyous.
1	Right	right	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	winsomely	winsomely	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
3	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	forward	forward	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	greet	greet	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	advcl	_	_
8	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	cheeks	cheek	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
12	blushing	blush	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	11	acl	_	_
13	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	conj	_	_
17	sparkling	sparkle	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	16	acl	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	joyous	joyous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come forward** | past | Beauty |  |  |  |  | forward, winsomely *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **greet** *speech: greet* | to-infinitive | Beauty *not said here* | Beauty's cheeks and Beauty's eyes | Maid |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
| 3 | **blush** | gerund | Beauty's cheeks and Beauty's eyes *not said here* |  |  |  |  | red *property* | vn hiccup-40.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **sparkle** | gerund | Beauty's eyes *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=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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