---
title: Silent as the moon among the clouds he moved on tiptoes cautiously b… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: Silent as the moon among the clouds he moved on tiptoes cautiously between the rows of slumbering people. Who acts: Minstrel, rows. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Flight, 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/pg66819/36/7/)

<!-- 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/) / 7

# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Flight, sentence 7

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Silent as the moon among the clouds he moved on tiptoes cautiously between the rows of slumbering people.

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** Minstrel, rows · **What happens:** move, slumber · **To what, where:** clouds, tiptoes, people

<!-- .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 (Minstrel, rows), 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:pg66819:36:7
# text = Silent as the moon among the clouds he moved on tiptoes cautiously between the rows of slumbering people.
1	Silent	silent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
2	as	as	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	moon	moon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
5	among	among	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	clouds	cloud	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obl	_	_
8	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	moved	move	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	acl:relcl	_	_
10	on	on	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	tiptoes	tiptoe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	_
12	cautiously	cautiously	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
13	between	between	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	rows	row	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nmod	_	_
16	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
17	slumbering	slumber	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	15	acl	_	_
18	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **move** | past | Minstrel | the clouds *not said here* |  | tiptoes between the rows |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent cloud=Theme |
| 2 | **slumber** | gerund | the rows *not said here* | people |  |  |  |  | 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 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66819/36/6/)
- next →: [sentence 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66819/36/8/)
- ↑ back to [The Flight](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66819/36/)