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title: “In such a storm as this, any shelter is sweet,” he said; and he sti… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: “In such a storm as this, any shelter is sweet,” he said; and he stirred the fire logs till the sparks shot upward and filled the hall with the sound of their merry snapping. Who acts: shelter, Smith, sparks. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Recipe, wit
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Recipe, sentence 8

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“In such a storm as this, any shelter is sweet,” he said; and he stirred the fire logs till the sparks shot upward and filled the hall with the sound of their merry snapping.

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**Who acts:** shelter, Smith, sparks · **What happens:** be, say, stir, shoot, fill · **To what, where:** storm, fire logs, hall · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (shelter, Smith, sparks), 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:pg66819:9:8
# text = “In such a storm as this, any shelter is sweet,” he said; and he stirred the fire logs till the sparks shot upward and filled the hall with the sound of their merry snapping.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	In	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	such	such	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	5	det:predet	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	storm	storm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
6	as	as	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
9	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	10	det	_	_
10	shelter	shelter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
11	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
12	sweet	sweet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	_
15	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	20	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
19	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	stirred	stir	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	ccomp	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	logs	log	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obj	_	_
24	till	till	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	sparks	spark	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	nsubj	_	_
27	shot	shoot	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	advcl	_	_
28	upward	upward	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	filled	fill	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	conj	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	hall	hall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	_
33	with	with	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	sound	sound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	_
36	of	of	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
37	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	39	nmod:poss	_	_
38	merry	merry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	amod	_	_
39	snapping	snapping	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** *in a quote* | present | any shelter |  |  | such storm as this |  | sweet *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Smith |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **stir** | past | Smith | the fire logs |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus log=Experiencer |
| 4 | **shoot** | past | the sparks |  |  |  |  | upward *property* | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **fill** | past | the sparks *not said here* | the hall |  |  |  | with the sound of sparks's merry snapping | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent hall=Patient with sound=Instrument |

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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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