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title: She cared most kindly for the ship-wrecked men until the storm had d… — Fifty Famous Stories Retold · tree and pragmatics
description: She cared most kindly for the ship-wrecked men until the storm had died away and they were strong enough to go to their own homes. Who acts: Grace, storm, men. A sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Grace Darling., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Grace Darling., sentence 33

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She cared most kindly for the ship-wrecked men until the storm had died away and they were strong enough to go to their own homes.

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**Who acts:** Grace, storm, men · **What happens:** care, wreck, die away, be, go · **To what, where:** own homes

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This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Grace Darling.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Grace, storm, 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:pg18442:22:33
# text = She cared most kindly for the ship-wrecked men until the storm had died away and they were strong enough to go to their own homes.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	cared	care	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	4	advmod	_	_
4	kindly	kindly	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
5	for	for	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
7	ship	ship	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	wrecked	wreck	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	amod	_	_
10	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
11	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	storm	storm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
14	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	died	die	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
16	away	away	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
18	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
19	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
20	strong	strong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	conj	_	_
21	enough	enough	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
22	to	to	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	_
23	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	advcl	_	_
24	to	to	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
26	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	homes	home	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **care** | past | Grace |  |  |  |  | for the wrecked men; kindly *property* | vn caring-75.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent for man=Theme |
| 2 | **wreck** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **die away** | past · perfect | the storm |  |  |  |  | away *property* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 4 | **is** | past | men *= man* |  |  |  |  | enough, strong *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **go** | to-infinitive | men *= man* *not said here* |  |  | men's own homes |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to home=Initial\_Location |

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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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