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title: One summer day King Max-i-mil'ian of Ba-va'ri-a was walking in the c… — Fifty Famous Stories Retold · tree and pragmatics
description: One summer day King Max-i-mil'ian of Ba-va'ri-a was walking in the country. Who acts: King Max. A sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Maximilian and the Goose Boy., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Maximilian and the Goose Boy., sentence 1

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One summer day King Max-i-mil'ian of Ba-va'ri-a was walking in the country.

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**Who acts:** King Max · **What happens:** walk · **To what, where:** country

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This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Maximilian and the Goose Boy.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King Max), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Checked tree.** This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (`gutenberg:pg18442:1393`): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg18442:47:1
# text = One summer day King Max-i-mil'ian of Ba-va'ri-a was walking in the country.
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
2	summer	summer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl:unmarked	_	_
4	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	Max	Max	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
6	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	5	punct	_	_
7	i	i	X	GW	_	5	goeswith	_	_
8	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	5	punct	_	_
9	mil'ian	mil'ian	X	GW	_	5	goeswith	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	Ba	Ba	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
12	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	11	punct	_	_
13	va'ri	va'ri	X	GW	_	11	goeswith	_	_
14	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	11	punct	_	_
15	a	a	X	GW	_	11	goeswith	_	_
16	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	walking	walk	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **walk** | past · progressive | King Max of Ba |  |  | the country | day |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in country=Trajectory |

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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:** the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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