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title: The Minstrel rose quietly and stole out of the house very cautiously… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: The Minstrel rose quietly and stole out of the house very cautiously—so cautiously that the dogs who were sleeping by the doorway were not aroused. Who acts: Minstrel, dogs. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Launching, with its dependency tree and the pr
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Launching, sentence 10

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The Minstrel rose quietly and stole out of the house very cautiously—so cautiously that the dogs who were sleeping by the doorway were not aroused.

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**Who acts:** Minstrel, dogs · **What happens:** rise, steal, sleep, not arouse · **To what, where:** house, dogs

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This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Launching. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Minstrel, dogs), 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:pg66819:18:10
# text = The Minstrel rose quietly and stole out of the house very cautiously—so cautiously that the dogs who were sleeping by the doorway were not aroused.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Minstrel	Minstrel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	rose	rise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	quietly	quietly	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	stole	steal	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
7	out	out	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
11	very	very	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	cautiously	cautiously	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	so	so	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	cautiously	cautiously	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
16	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	dogs	dog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	nsubj:pass	_	_
19	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	21	nsubj	_	_
20	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	sleeping	sleep	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	18	acl:relcl	_	_
22	by	by	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	doorway	doorway	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
25	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	aux:pass	_	_
26	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	27	advmod	_	_
27	aroused	arouse	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rise** | past | the Minstrel |  |  |  |  | cautiously, quietly *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **steal** | past | the Minstrel *not said here* |  |  | the house |  | cautiously *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme out house=Location |
| 3 | **sleep** | past · progressive | the dogs |  |  |  |  | by the doorway | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **not** **arouse** | past · passive |  | the dogs |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer |

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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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