The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Caldron, sentence 7

Singly and by twos and threes they came and squatted round Dame Louhi’s fireplace, rubbing their hands together, warming their shins, and staring into the face of the marvellous stranger.

Who acts: Herdsmen · What happens: come, squat, rub, warm, stare · To what, where: threes, hands, shins

This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Caldron. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Herdsmen), 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Singly	singly	ADV	_	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 twos	cc
3	by	by	ADP	_	4 twos	case
4	twos	two	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Singly	conj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 threes	cc
6	threes	three	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 twos	conj
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 came	nsubj
8	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 threes	acl:relcl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 squatted	cc
10	squatted	squat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 came	conj
11	round	round	ADP	_	15 fireplace	case
12	Dame	Dame	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 fireplace	nmod:poss
13	Louhi	Louhi	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 Dame	flat
14	’s	's	PART	_	12 Dame	case
15	fireplace	fireplace	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 squatted	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 rubbing	punct
17	rubbing	rub	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 squatted	advcl
18	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 hands	nmod:poss
19	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 rubbing	obj
20	together	together	ADV	_	17 rubbing	advmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 warming	punct
22	warming	warm	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	17 rubbing	conj
23	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 shins	nmod:poss
24	shins	shin	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 warming	obj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 staring	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 staring	cc
27	staring	stare	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 came	advcl
28	into	into	ADP	_	30 face	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 face	det
30	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 staring	obl
31	of	of	ADP	_	34 stranger	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 stranger	det
33	marvellous	marvellous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 stranger	amod
34	stranger	stranger	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 face	nmod
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Singly	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	come	past	Herdsmen = herdsman	threes not said here		vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location three=Theme
2	squat	past	Herdsmen = herdsman not said here		round Dame's fireplace	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	rub	gerund	Herdsmen = herdsman not said here	Herdsmen's hands	together property	vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent hand=Theme
4	warm	gerund	Herdsmen = herdsman not said here	Herdsmen's shins		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent shin=Patient
5	stare	gerund	Herdsmen = herdsman not said here		into the face of the marvellous stranger	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent into face=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.

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🌲 The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Caldron, sentence 7

The tree

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The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Caldron, sentence 7