The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Flight, sentence 16

Behind him followed the heroes and the young men and the maidens with curling hair, and not one dared utter a word or in any way disturb the wonderful silence that prevailed.

Who acts: sleep, one, wonderful silence · What happens: follow, dare, disturb, prevail · To what, where: heroes, wonderful silence

This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Flight. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sleep, one, wonderful silence), 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	Behind	behind	ADP	_	3 followed	mark
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 followed	nsubj
3	followed	follow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 heroes	det
5	heroes	hero	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 followed	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 men	cc
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 men	det
8	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 men	amod
9	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 heroes	conj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 maidens	cc
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 maidens	det
12	maidens	maiden	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 heroes	conj
13	with	with	ADP	_	15 hair	case
14	curling	curling	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 hair	amod
15	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 maidens	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 dared	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 dared	cc
18	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	19 one	advmod
19	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	20 dared	nsubj
20	dared	dare	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 followed	parataxis
21	utter	utter	ADP	_	23 word	case
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 word	det
23	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 dared	obl
24	or	or	CCONJ	_	27 way	cc
25	in	in	ADP	_	27 way	case
26	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	27 way	det
27	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 word	conj
28	disturb	disturb	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 dared	xcomp
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 silence	det
30	wonderful	wonderful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 silence	amod
31	silence	silence	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 disturb	obj
32	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	33 prevailed	nsubj
33	prevailed	prevail	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 silence	acl:relcl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 followed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	follow	past	sleep	the heroes and the young men and the maidens with curling hair		vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hero=Theme
2	dare	participle	one		utter a word or any way	vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	disturb	infinitive	one not said here	the wonderful silence		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus silence=Experiencer
4	prevail	past	the wonderful silence			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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 Flight, sentence 16

The tree

Pragmatics

The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Flight, sentence 16