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title: They reached their chilly fingers down through the chimney-hole as t… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: They reached their chilly fingers down through the chimney-hole as though they would snatch up the luckless Smith and bear him still farther away into regions untraversed and unknown. Who acts: winds. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Recipe, with its de
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Recipe, sentence 5

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They reached their chilly fingers down through the chimney-hole as though they would snatch up the luckless Smith and bear him still farther away into regions untraversed and unknown.

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**Who acts:** winds · **What happens:** reach, snatch up, bear, untravers · **To what, where:** chilly fingers, chimney hole, luckless Smith, Smith, regions

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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 (winds), 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:pg66819:9:5
# text = They reached their chilly fingers down through the chimney-hole as though they would snatch up the luckless Smith and bear him still farther away into regions untraversed and unknown.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	reached	reach	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
4	chilly	chilly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	fingers	finger	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
6	down	down	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
7	through	through	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
9	chimney	chimney	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	hole	hole	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
12	as	as	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
13	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
14	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
15	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	snatch	snatch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	advcl	_	_
17	up	up	ADP	RP	_	16	compound:prt	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	luckless	luckless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	Smith	Smith	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	bear	bear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	conj	_	_
23	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	obj	_	_
24	still	still	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
25	farther	far	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	26	advmod	_	_
26	away	away	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
27	into	into	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	regions	region	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obl	_	_
29	untraversed	untravers	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	28	acl	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
31	unknown	unknown	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **reach** | past | winds *= wind* | winds's chilly fingers |  | the chimney hole |  | down *property* | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent finger=Theme |
| 2 | **snatch up** | would | winds *= wind* | the luckless Smith |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent smith=Theme |
| 3 | **bear** | infinitive | winds *= wind* *not said here* | Smith |  |  | still | away *property* | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient |
| 4 | **untravers** | participle |  | regions *not said here* |  |  |  |  | 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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