--- title: And the cunning Mistress grimly smiled and joyfully gave him a home… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics description: And the cunning Mistress grimly smiled and joyfully gave him a home in her broad, low dwelling—she gave him food and lodging, the softest seat beside her hearth, the warmest bed beneath her rafters. Who acts: cunning Mistress, Mistress. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (cunning Mistress, Mistress), 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:pg66819:9:70 # text = And the cunning Mistress grimly smiled and joyfully gave him a home in her broad, low dwelling—she gave him food and lodging, the softest seat beside her hearth, the warmest bed beneath her rafters. 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 cunning cunning NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 4 Mistress mistress NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 5 grimly grimly ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 6 smiled smile VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 8 joyfully joyfully ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ _ 9 gave give VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 10 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 iobj _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 home home NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ _ 13 in in SCONJ IN _ 18 mark _ _ 14 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 18 nmod:poss _ _ 15 broad broad ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 17 low low ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 conj _ _ 18 dwelling dwell VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 9 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 19 — - PUNCT : _ 21 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 20 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 21 gave give VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 22 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 iobj _ _ 23 food food NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obj _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 25 lodging lodging NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 26 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 28 softest soft ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 29 amod _ _ 29 seat seat NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 conj _ _ 30 beside beside ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 31 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 32 nmod:poss _ _ 32 hearth hearth NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 33 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 35 warmest warm ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 36 amod _ _ 36 bed bed NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 conj _ _ 37 beneath beneath ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 38 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 39 nmod:poss _ _ 39 rafters rafter NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 40 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **smile** | past | the cunning Mistress | | | | | grimly *property* | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **give** | past | the cunning Mistress *not said here* | a home | Ilmarinen | | | joyfully *property* | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient home=Theme | | 3 | **dwell** | gerund | the cunning Mistress *not said here* | | | | | Mistress *nmod:poss* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **give** | past | Mistress | food and lodging and the softest seat beside Mistress's hearth and the warmest bed | Ilmarinen | | | beneath Mistress's rafters | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient food=Theme | 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 69](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66819/9/69/) - next →: [sentence 71](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66819/9/71/) - ↑ back to [The Recipe](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66819/9/)