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title: Then, gracefully and with dignity, like a princess on her wedding da… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: Then, gracefully and with dignity, like a princess on her wedding day, the little ship glided across the shelving beach and in another moment was floating lightly, smoothly, nobly upon the water. Who acts: princess. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Laun
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Launching, sentence 39

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Then, gracefully and with dignity, like a princess on her wedding day, the little ship glided across the shelving beach and in another moment was floating lightly, smoothly, nobly upon the water.

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**Who acts:** princess · **What happens:** glide, float · **To what, where:** little ship, shelving beach, water

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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 (princess), 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:pg66819:18:39
# text = Then, gracefully and with dignity, like a princess on her wedding day, the little ship glided across the shelving beach and in another moment was floating lightly, smoothly, nobly upon the water.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	29	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	gracefully	gracefully	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	dignity	dignity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	like	like	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nsubj	_	_
11	on	on	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
13	wedding	wedding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	ship	ship	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
19	glided	glide	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	acl	_	_
20	across	across	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	shelving	shelving	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	beach	beach	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
25	in	in	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	27	det	_	_
27	moment	moment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	conj	_	_
28	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
29	floating	float	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
30	lightly	lightly	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
32	smoothly	smoothly	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
34	nobly	nobly	ADV	RB	_	37	advmod	_	_
35	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	29	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **glide** | participle |  | the little ship *not said here* |  | the shelving beach and another moment |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme across beach=Trajectory |
| 2 | **float** | past · progressive | a princess on sound's wedding day and the little ship |  |  | the water | then | with dignity; gracefully, lightly, smoothly *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon water=Trajectory |

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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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