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title: When-ever they had taken anything, it was brought and laid at the fe… — Fifty Famous Stories Retold · tree and pragmatics
description: When-ever they had taken anything, it was brought and laid at the feet of Robin Hood, whom they called their king. Who acts: men. A sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, A Story of Robin Hood., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fifty Famous Stories Retold, A Story of Robin Hood., sentence 8

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When-ever they had taken anything, it was brought and laid at the feet of Robin Hood, whom they called their king.

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**Who acts:** men · **What happens:** take, bring, lay, call · **To what, where:** anything, leader, feet, Robin · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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), 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:pg18442:11:8
# text = When-ever they had taken anything, it was brought and laid at the feet of Robin Hood, whom they called their king.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	-	-	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	6	advmod	_	_
4	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
5	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	taken	take	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	11	advcl	_	_
7	anything	anything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
9	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj:pass	_	_
10	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux:pass	_	_
11	brought	bring	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	laid	lay	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	conj	_	_
14	at	at	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	Robin	Robin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
19	Hood	Hood	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	23	obj	_	_
22	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	called	call	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	acl:relcl	_	_
24	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | past · perfect | men *= man* | anything |  |  | ever |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Theme |
| 2 | **bring** | past · passive |  | leader |  | the feet of Robin |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: subject=Theme |
| 3 | **lay** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **call** | past | men *= man* | Robin |  |  |  |  | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent whom=Theme king=Result |

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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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