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title: The boy ran forward with his whip, and after a great deal of shoutin… — Fifty Famous Stories Retold · tree and pragmatics
description: The boy ran forward with his whip, and after a great deal of shouting and scolding, the geese were driven back into the meadow. Who acts: boy. 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 69

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The boy ran forward with his whip, and after a great deal of shouting and scolding, the geese were driven back into the meadow.

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**Who acts:** boy · **What happens:** run, drive back, deal · **To what, where:** geese, meadow, shouting

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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 (boy), 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:pg18442:47:69
# text = The boy ran forward with his whip, and after a great deal of shouting and scolding, the geese were driven back into the meadow.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	ran	run	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	forward	forward	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	whip	whip	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
10	after	after	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	deal	deal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	shouting	shouting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	scolding	scolding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	geese	goose	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nsubj:pass	_	_
21	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux:pass	_	_
22	driven	drive	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
23	back	back	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
24	into	into	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	meadow	meadow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **run** | past | the boy |  |  |  |  | with boy's whip; forward *property* | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent with whip=Material |
| 2 | **drive back** | past · passive |  | the geese |  | the meadow | after a great deal of shouting and scolding |  | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme into meadow=Trajectory |
| 3 | **deal** |  |  | shouting and scolding |  |  |  |  | nom deal «act transitive»: of=patient |

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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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