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title: He wanted very much to take his soldiers into It-a-ly; but between F… — Fifty Famous Stories Retold · tree and pragmatics
description: He wanted very much to take his soldiers into It-a-ly; but between France and Italy there are high mountains called the Alps, the tops of which are covered with snow. Who acts: France, high mountains. A sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, How Napoleon Crossed the Alps., with 
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# Fifty Famous Stories Retold, How Napoleon Crossed the Alps., sentence 3

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He wanted very much to take his soldiers into It-a-ly; but between France and Italy there are high mountains called the Alps, the tops of which are covered with snow.

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**Who acts:** France, high mountains · **What happens:** want, take, be, call, cover · **To what, where:** soldiers, ly, France, high mountains · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, How Napoleon Crossed the Alps.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (France, high mountains), 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:pg18442:26:3
# text = He wanted very much to take his soldiers into It-a-ly; but between France and Italy there are high mountains called the Alps, the tops of which are covered with snow.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	wanted	want	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	very	very	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	much	much	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	xcomp	_	_
7	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	soldiers	soldier	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
9	into	into	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
10	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	ly	ly	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
16	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
17	between	between	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	France	France	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	Italy	Italy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	_
21	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	22	expl	_	_
22	are	be	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
23	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	mountains	mountain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nsubj	_	_
25	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	24	acl	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	Alps	Alp	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	25	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	tops	top	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	conj	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	34	obl	_	_
33	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	34	aux:pass	_	_
34	covered	cover	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	30	acl:relcl	_	_
35	with	with	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	snow	snow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **want** | past | France |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 2 | **take** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | France *not said here* | France's soldiers |  | a ly |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent soldier=Theme into ly=Destination |
| 3 | **does** | present | high mountains and the tops |  |  | France and Italy; there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme between france=Location |
| 4 | **call** | participle |  | high mountains and the tops *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **cover** | present · passive |  |  |  |  |  | of the tops; with snow | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: with snow=Theme |

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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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