--- title: “The Sampo,” answered the Maid of Beauty—and her voice was like the… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics description: “The Sampo,” answered the Maid of Beauty—and her voice was like the ripple of wavelets on the shore of the summer sea—“the Sampo is the mill of fortune—the magic grinder that will grind whatever its owner most desires: money, houses, ships, silver, flour, salt—everything!” Who acts: Sampo, voice, ma --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66819/9/35/) [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/) / 35 # The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Recipe, sentence 35 “The Sampo,” answered the Maid of Beauty—and her voice was like the ripple of wavelets on the shore of the summer sea—“the Sampo is the mill of fortune—the magic grinder that will grind whatever its owner most desires: money, houses, ships, silver, flour, salt—everything!” **Who acts:** Sampo, voice, magic grinder · **What happens:** answer, be, grind · **To what, where:** Maid, mill, whatever · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (Sampo, voice, magic grinder), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg66819:9:35 # text = “The Sampo,” answered the Maid of Beauty—and her voice was like the ripple of wavelets on the shore of the summer sea—“the Sampo is the mill of fortune—the magic grinder that will grind whatever its owner most desires: money, houses, ships, silver, flour, salt—everything!” 1 “ " PUNCT `` _ 6 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 Sampo Sampo PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 5 ” " PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ _ 6 answered answer VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 Maid Maid PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 obj _ _ 9 of of ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 Beauty Beauty PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 11 — - PUNCT : _ 18 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 13 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 14 nmod:poss _ _ 14 voice voice NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nsubj _ _ 15 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 18 cop _ _ 16 like like ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 ripple ripple NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 conj _ _ 19 of of ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 20 wavelets wavelet NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 nmod _ _ 21 on on ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 shore shore NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nmod _ _ 24 of of ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 26 summer summer NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 compound _ _ 27 sea sea NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 28 — - PUNCT : _ 34 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 29 “ " PUNCT `` _ 34 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 Sampo Sampo PROPN NNP Number=Sing 34 nsubj _ _ 32 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 34 cop _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 mill mill NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 appos _ _ 35 of of ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 36 fortune fortune NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 37 — - PUNCT : _ 40 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 38 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 39 magic magic ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 40 amod _ _ 40 grinder grinder NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 appos _ _ 41 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 43 nsubj _ _ 42 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 43 aux _ _ 43 grind grind VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 40 acl:relcl _ _ 44 whatever whatever PRON WP PronType=Rel 43 obj _ _ 45 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 46 nmod:poss _ _ 46 owner owner NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 obj _ _ 47 most most ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 48 amod _ _ 48 desires desire NOUN NNS Number=Plur 43 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 49 : : PUNCT : _ 50 punct _ _ 50 money money NOUN NN Number=Sing 48 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 51 , , PUNCT , _ 52 punct _ _ 52 houses house NOUN NNS Number=Plur 50 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 53 , , PUNCT , _ 54 punct _ _ 54 ships ship NOUN NNS Number=Plur 50 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 55 , , PUNCT , _ 56 punct _ _ 56 silver silver NOUN NN Number=Sing 50 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 57 , , PUNCT , _ 58 punct _ _ 58 flour flour NOUN NN Number=Sing 50 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 59 , , PUNCT , _ 60 punct _ _ 60 salt salt NOUN NN Number=Sing 50 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 61 — - PUNCT : _ 62 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 62 everything everything PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Tot 40 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 63 ! ! PUNCT . _ 40 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 64 ” " PUNCT '' _ 34 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **answer** *speech: express* | past | the Sampo | | the Maid of Beauty | | | | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent maid=Eventuality | | 2 | **is** | past | Beauty's voice | | | | | like the ripple; of wavelets on the shore of the summer sea | tree rules | | 3 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | the Sampo | the mill | | | | of fortune; the magic grinder everything *appos* | tree rules | | 4 | **grind** *in a quote* | future | the magic grinder everything | whatever | | | | Sampo's owner *obj*; most desires and money and houses and ships and silver and flour and salt *obj* | tree rules | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 34](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66819/9/34/) - next →: [sentence 36](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66819/9/36/) - ↑ back to [The Recipe](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66819/9/)