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title: There they spent their time in roaming about among the trees, in hun… — Fifty Famous Stories Retold · tree and pragmatics
description: There they spent their time in roaming about among the trees, in hunting the king's deer, and in robbing rich trav-el-ers that came that way. Who acts: men, rich trav el ers. A sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, A Story of Robin Hood., with its dependency tree and the pragma
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# Fifty Famous Stories Retold, A Story of Robin Hood., sentence 5

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There they spent their time in roaming about among the trees, in hunting the king's deer, and in robbing rich trav-el-ers that came that way.

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**Who acts:** men, rich trav el ers · **What happens:** spend, roam, hunt, rob, come · **To what, where:** trees, deer, rich trav el ers

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This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, A Story of Robin Hood.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (men, rich trav el ers), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher.** This tree is Mova's own parse (the `en` model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg18442:11:5
# text = There they spent their time in roaming about among the trees, in hunting the king's deer, and in robbing rich trav-el-ers that came that way.
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	3	expl	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	spent	spend	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
7	roaming	roam	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
8	about	about	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
9	among	among	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
14	hunting	hunt	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	's	's	PART	POS	_	16	case	_	_
18	deer	deer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
21	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
22	robbing	rob	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
23	rich	rich	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
24	trav	trav	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	el	el	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	ers	er	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obj	_	_
29	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	30	nsubj	_	_
30	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	acl:relcl	_	_
31	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	32	det	_	_
32	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **spend** | past | men *= man* |  |  | there | time |  | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **roam** | gerund | men *= man* *not said here* |  |  | the trees |  | about *property* | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme among tree=Trajectory |
| 3 | **hunt** | gerund | men *= man* *not said here* | the king's deer |  |  |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent deer=Theme |
| 4 | **rob** | gerund | men *= man* *not said here* | rich trav el ers |  |  |  |  | vn cheat-10.6.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent er=Source |
| 5 | **come** | past | rich trav el ers |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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:** «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Project Gutenberg book 18442 (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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