---
title: Behind him followed the heroes and the young men and the maidens wit… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Flig
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66819/36/16/)

<!-- 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 Flight](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66819/36/) / 16

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

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
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.

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** sleep, one, wonderful silence · **What happens:** follow, dare, disturb, prevail · **To what, where:** heroes, wonderful silence

<!-- .vabout -->
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.

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

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg66819:36:16
# text = 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.
1	Behind	behind	ADP	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	followed	follow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	heroes	hero	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	conj	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	maidens	maiden	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	conj	_	_
13	with	with	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	curling	curling	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	hair	hair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
18	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	19	advmod	_	_
19	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	20	nsubj	_	_
20	dared	dare	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	parataxis	_	_
21	utter	utter	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
24	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
25	in	in	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	27	det	_	_
27	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	conj	_	_
28	disturb	disturb	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	xcomp	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	wonderful	wonderful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	silence	silence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	_
32	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	33	nsubj	_	_
33	prevailed	prevail	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | 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 |

<!-- .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 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66819/36/15/)
- next →: [sentence 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66819/36/17/)
- ↑ back to [The Flight](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66819/36/)