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title: Many years ago there lived in Eng-land a wise and good king whose na… — Fifty Famous Stories Retold · tree and pragmatics
description: Many years ago there lived in Eng-land a wise and good king whose name was Al-fred. A sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, King Alfred and the Cakes., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fifty Famous Stories Retold, King Alfred and the Cakes., sentence 1

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Many years ago there lived in Eng-land a wise and good king whose name was Al-fred.

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**What happens:** live, fr · **To what, where:** Eng land, wise king

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This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, King Alfred and the Cakes.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:pg18442:3:1
# text = Many years ago there lived in Eng-land a wise and good king whose name was Al-fred.
1	Many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl:unmarked	_	_
3	ago	ago	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
4	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	_
5	lived	live	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	Eng	Eng	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
11	wise	wise	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	conj	_	_
14	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj:pass	_	_
15	whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj:pass	_	_
17	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux:pass	_	_
18	Al	Al	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	fred	fr	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **live** | past |  |  |  | Eng land; there | year |  | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in land=Location |
| 2 | **fr** | past · passive |  | a wise king |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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