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title: It is a figure carved in stone of a woman lying at rest, with a boat… — Fifty Famous Stories Retold · tree and pragmatics
description: It is a figure carved in stone of a woman lying at rest, with a boat's oar held fast in her right hand. Who acts: ment, woman. 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 38

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It is a figure carved in stone of a woman lying at rest, with a boat's oar held fast in her right hand.

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**Who acts:** ment, woman · **What happens:** be, carve, lie, hold · **To what, where:** figure, stone, rest, oar, right hand

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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 (ment, woman), 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:pg18442:22:38
# text = It is a figure carved in stone of a woman lying at rest, with a boat's oar held fast in her right hand.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	figure	figure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	carved	carve	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	acl	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	stone	stone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
11	lying	lie	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	10	acl	_	_
12	at	at	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	rest	rest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
15	with	with	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	boat	boat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	's	's	PART	POS	_	17	case	_	_
19	oar	oar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
20	held	hold	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	acl	_	_
21	fast	fast	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	20	advmod	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
24	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | ment | a figure |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **carve** | participle |  | a figure *not said here* |  | stone of a woman |  | with a boat's oar | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in stone=Destination |
| 3 | **lie** | gerund | a woman *not said here* |  |  | rest |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at rest=Location |
| 4 | **hold** | participle |  | a boat's oar *not said here* |  | woman's right hand |  | fast *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in hand=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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