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title: It would have been well if Sir Walter Raleigh had let it alone. — Fifty Famous Stories Retold · tree and pragmatics
description: It would have been well if Sir Walter Raleigh had let it alone. A sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Sir Walter Raleigh., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Sir Walter Raleigh., sentence 53

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It would have been well if Sir Walter Raleigh had let it alone.

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**What happens:** let · **To what, where:** tobacco

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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: 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:pg18442:20:53
# text = It would have been well if Sir Walter Raleigh had let it alone.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
3	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	aux	_	_
4	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	11	aux:pass	_	_
5	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	11	advmod	_	_
6	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
7	Sir	Sir	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod:desc	_	_
8	Walter	Walter	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
9	Raleigh	Raleigh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	flat	_	_
10	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	let	let	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
12	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obj	_	_
13	alone	alone	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **let** | would · perfect · passive |  | tobacco |  |  |  | alone, well *property* | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient it=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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