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title: Schacabac went in, and passed through many beautiful rooms, looking… — Fifty Famous Stories Retold · tree and pragmatics
description: Schacabac went in, and passed through many beautiful rooms, looking for the Barmecide. Who acts: Schacabac. A sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, The Barmecide Feast., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Barmecide Feast., sentence 10

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Schacabac went in, and passed through many beautiful rooms, looking for the Barmecide.

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**Who acts:** Schacabac · **What happens:** go in, pass, look · **To what, where:** many beautiful rooms

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This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, The Barmecide Feast.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Schacabac), 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:pg18442:44:10
# text = Schacabac went in, and passed through many beautiful rooms, looking for the Barmecide.
1	Schacabac	Schacabac	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	in	in	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	passed	pass	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	conj	_	_
7	through	through	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
9	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	rooms	room	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	looking	look	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	advcl	_	_
13	for	for	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	Barmecide	barmecide	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go in** | past | Schacabac |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **pass** | participle | Schacabac *not said here* |  |  | many beautiful rooms |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme through room=Location |
| 3 | **look** | gerund | Schacabac *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for the Barmecide | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for barmecide=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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