--- title: As she walked onward with her train, she asked one of the gen-tle-wo… — Fifty Famous Stories Retold · tree and pragmatics description: As she walked onward with her train, she asked one of the gen-tle-wom-en, "Who is that brave gen-tle-man who helped us so handsomely?" Who acts: queen, brave tle man. A sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Sir Walter Raleigh., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of eve --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/20/25/) [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/) / [Fifty Famous Stories Retold](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/) / [Sir Walter Raleigh.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/20/) / 25 # Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Sir Walter Raleigh., sentence 25 As she walked onward with her train, she asked one of the gen-tle-wom-en, "Who is that brave gen-tle-man who helped us so handsomely?" **Who acts:** queen, brave tle man · **What happens:** walk, ask, be, help · **To what, where:** one, brave tle man, us · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Sir Walter Raleigh.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (queen, brave tle man), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg18442:20:25 # text = As she walked onward with her train, she asked one of the gen-tle-wom-en, "Who is that brave gen-tle-man who helped us so handsomely?" 1 As as SCONJ IN _ 3 mark _ _ 2 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 walked walk VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 advcl _ _ 4 onward onward ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 5 with with ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 7 nmod:poss _ _ 7 train train NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 9 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj _ _ 10 asked ask VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 11 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 10 obj _ _ 12 of of ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 14 gen gen NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 15 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 14 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 16 tle tle NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 17 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 18 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 18 wom wom NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 19 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 18 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 20 en en NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 22 " " PUNCT `` _ 31 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 23 Who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 31 nsubj _ _ 24 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 31 cop _ _ 25 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 31 nsubj _ _ 26 brave brave ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 amod _ _ 27 gen gen NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 28 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 27 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 29 tle tle NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 30 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 29 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 31 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 ccomp _ _ 32 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 33 nsubj _ _ 33 helped help VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 31 acl:relcl _ _ 34 us we PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 33 obj _ _ 35 so so ADV RB _ 36 advmod _ _ 36 handsomely handsomely ADV RB _ 33 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 37 ? ? PUNCT . _ 33 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 38 " " PUNCT '' _ 31 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **walk** | past | queen | | | | | with queen's train; onward *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past | queen | one of the gen tle wom en | | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent one=Recipient | | 3 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | | brave tle man | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **help** *in a quote* | past | brave tle man | | us | | | handsomely *property* | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Beneficiary | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 24](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/20/24/) - next →: [sentence 26](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/20/26/) - ↑ back to [Sir Walter Raleigh.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/20/)