---
title: They walked with noiseless feet among the clouds and showered gifts… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: They walked with noiseless feet among the clouds and showered gifts upon the earth. Who acts: maidens. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Wicked Hornet, 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/pg66819/5/6/)

<!-- 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 Wicked Hornet](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66819/5/) / 6

# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Wicked Hornet, sentence 6

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
They walked with noiseless feet among the clouds and showered gifts upon the earth.

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** maidens · **What happens:** walk, shower · **To what, where:** clouds, gifts, earth

<!-- .vabout -->
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Wicked Hornet. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (maidens), 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:pg66819:5:6
# text = They walked with noiseless feet among the clouds and showered gifts upon the earth.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	walked	walk	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	with	with	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	noiseless	noiseless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
6	among	among	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	clouds	cloud	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	showered	shower	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
11	gifts	gift	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
12	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	earth	earth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **walk** | past | maidens *= maiden* |  |  | the clouds |  | with noiseless feet | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme among cloud=Trajectory |
| 2 | **shower** | past | maidens *= maiden* *not said here* | gifts |  | the earth |  |  | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent gift=Theme upon earth=Destination |

<!-- .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 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66819/5/5/)
- next →: [sentence 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66819/5/7/)
- ↑ back to [The Wicked Hornet](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66819/5/)