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title: It was bright and new, and George took great delight in going about… — Fifty Famous Stories Retold · tree and pragmatics
description: It was bright and new, and George took great delight in going about and chopping things with it. Who acts: ton, George. A sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, George Washington and His Hatchet., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fifty Famous Stories Retold, George Washington and His Hatchet., sentence 2

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It was bright and new, and George took great delight in going about and chopping things with it.

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**Who acts:** ton, George · **What happens:** be, take, go about, chop · **To what, where:** great delight, things

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This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, George Washington and His Hatchet.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (ton, George), 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:pg18442:21:2
# text = It was bright and new, and George took great delight in going about and chopping things with it.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	bright	bright	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
8	George	George	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
10	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	delight	delight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
13	going	go	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	advcl	_	_
14	about	about	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	chopping	chop	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	13	conj	_	_
17	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obj	_	_
18	with	with	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | ton |  |  |  |  | bright *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** |  | ton *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **take** | past | George | great delight |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent delight=Theme |
| 4 | **go about** | gerund | George *not said here* |  |  |  |  | about *property* | vn confront-98 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **chop** | gerund | George *not said here* | things |  |  |  | with ton | vn carve-21.2-2 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent thing=Patient with it=Instrument |

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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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