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title: The very next minute, four and twenty men, all dressed in green, and… — Fifty Famous Stories Retold · tree and pragmatics
description: The very next minute, four and twenty men, all dressed in green, and car-ry-ing long bows in their hands, came running across the fields. Who acts: twenty men, next minute. A sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, A Story of Robin Hood., with its dependency tree and the pragmati
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# Fifty Famous Stories Retold, A Story of Robin Hood., sentence 59

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The very next minute, four and twenty men, all dressed in green, and car-ry-ing long bows in their hands, came running across the fields.

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**Who acts:** twenty men, next minute · **What happens:** dress, come, run · **To what, where:** all, green, fields

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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 (twenty men, next minute), 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:pg18442:11:59
# text = The very next minute, four and twenty men, all dressed in green, and car-ry-ing long bows in their hands, came running across the fields.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	very	very	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	minute	minute	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	appos	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
8	twenty	twenty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	9	nummod	_	_
9	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	12	nsubj:pass	_	_
12	dressed	dress	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	acl	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
17	car	car	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	ry	ry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	ing	ing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
22	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	bows	bow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	appos	_	_
24	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
28	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
29	running	run	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	28	advcl	_	_
30	across	across	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	fields	field	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	28	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **dress** | participle · passive | twenty men *not said here* | all |  | green |  |  | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 2 | **come** | past | the next minute and twenty men and ry ing |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **run** | gerund | the next minute and twenty men and ry ing *not said here* |  |  | the fields |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme across field=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:** «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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