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title: A hundred years or more after the time of Alfred the Great there was… — Fifty Famous Stories Retold · tree and pragmatics
description: A hundred years or more after the time of Alfred the Great there was a king of England named Ca-nute. Who acts: hundred years. A sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, King Canute on the Seashore., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fifty Famous Stories Retold, King Canute on the Seashore., sentence 1

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A hundred years or more after the time of Alfred the Great there was a king of England named Ca-nute.

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**Who acts:** hundred years · **What happens:** be, name · **To what, where:** king

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This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, King Canute on the Seashore.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hundred years), 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:pg18442:5:1
# text = A hundred years or more after the time of Alfred the Great there was a king of England named Ca-nute.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj	_	_
4	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	3	conj	_	_
6	after	after	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	Alfred	Alfred	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	Great	Great	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	flat	_	_
13	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	14	expl	_	_
14	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	England	England	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
19	named	name	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	acl	_	_
20	Ca	Ca	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	nute	nute	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | past | a hundred years after the time of Alfred |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **name** | participle |  | a king of England *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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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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