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title: As Tell was turning away from the place, an arrow which he had hidde… — Fifty Famous Stories Retold · tree and pragmatics
description: As Tell was turning away from the place, an arrow which he had hidden under his coat dropped to the ground. Who acts: arrow. A sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, The Story of William Tell., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Story of William Tell., sentence 29

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As Tell was turning away from the place, an arrow which he had hidden under his coat dropped to the ground.

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**Who acts:** arrow · **What happens:** tell, turn away, hide, drop · **To what, where:** place, arrow, coat, ground · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, The Story of William Tell.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (arrow), 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:pg18442:23:29
# text = As Tell was turning away from the place, an arrow which he had hidden under his coat dropped to the ground.
1	As	as	SCONJ	IN	_	2	mark	_	_
2	Tell	tell	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	turning	turn	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	ccomp	_	_
5	away	away	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	from	from	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	arrow	arrow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
12	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	15	nsubj:pass	_	_
13	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
14	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	hidden	hide	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	acl:relcl	_	_
16	under	under	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	coat	coat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
19	dropped	drop	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	acl:relcl	_	_
20	to	to	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | imperative |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **turn away** | past · progressive |  |  |  | the place |  | away *property* | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent from place=Source |
| 3 | **hide** | past · perfect · passive |  | a arrow |  | Gessler's coat |  |  | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Patient under coat=Location |
| 4 | **drop** | past | a arrow | the place *not said here* |  | the ground |  |  | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent place=Theme to ground=Destination |

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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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