---
title: Who would not have trembled in the presence of such marvellous beauty? — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: Who would not have trembled in the presence of such marvellous beauty? A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Homesick Hero, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66819/12/11/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old No…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66819/) / [The Homesick Hero](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66819/12/) / 11

# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Homesick Hero, sentence 11

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Who would not have trembled in the presence of such marvellous beauty?

<!-- .vintro -->
**What happens:** not tremble · **To what, where:** presence

<!-- .vabout -->
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Homesick Hero. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

<!-- .note-en -->
**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg66819:12:11
# text = Who would not have trembled in the presence of such marvellous beauty?
1	Who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
4	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	aux	_	_
5	trembled	tremble	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	presence	presence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
11	marvellous	marvellous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	beauty	beauty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **tremble** | would · perfect · passive |  |  |  | the presence of such marvellous beauty |  | Who *nsubj:pass* | tree rules |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [sentence 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66819/12/10/)
- next →: [sentence 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66819/12/12/)
- ↑ back to [The Homesick Hero](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66819/12/)