--- title: Day after day he sat among his money bags, and planned how he might… — Fifty Famous Stories Retold · tree and pragmatics description: Day after day he sat among his money bags, and planned how he might get more gold; and day after day his horse stood in his bare stall, half-starved, and shiv-er-ing with cold. Who acts: Day, knight, horse, shiv. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Day, knight, horse, shiv), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg18442:25:44 # text = Day after day he sat among his money bags, and planned how he might get more gold; and day after day his horse stood in his bare stall, half-starved, and shiv-er-ing with cold. 1 Day Day PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 2 after after ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 3 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 nmod _ _ 4 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 5 sat sit VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 among among ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 7 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 9 nmod:poss _ _ 8 money money NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 compound _ _ 9 bags bag NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 12 planned plan VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 13 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 16 advmod _ _ 14 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 15 might might AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 16 aux _ _ 16 get get VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 12 ccomp _ _ 17 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 18 amod _ _ 18 gold gold NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 19 ; ; PUNCT : _ 26 punct _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 21 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obl:unmarked _ _ 22 after after ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 23 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nmod _ _ 24 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 25 nmod:poss _ _ 25 horse horse NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nsubj _ _ 26 stood stand VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 27 in in ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 28 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 30 nmod:poss _ _ 29 bare bare ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 amod _ _ 30 stall stall NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 31 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 32 half half NOUN NN Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac 34 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 33 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 32 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 34 starved starve VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 26 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 35 , , PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ _ 36 and and CCONJ CC _ 41 cc _ _ 37 shiv shiv NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 38 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 37 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 39 er er NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 40 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 41 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 41 ing ing NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obl _ _ 42 with with ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 43 cold cold ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 41 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 44 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **sit** | past | Day after day | | | knight's money bags | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent among bag=Location | | 2 | **plan** | past | Day after day *not said here* | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **get** | might | knight | more gold | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer gold=Stimulus | | 4 | **stand** | past | knight's horse | | | knight's bare stall | day | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in stall=Location | | 5 | **starve** | participle | knight's horse *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **ing** | | shiv | | | | | with cold | tree rules | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 43](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/25/43/) - next →: [sentence 45](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/25/45/) - ↑ back to [The Bell of Atri.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/25/)