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title: It was not long before she had driven all the rats and mice away; an… — Fifty Famous Stories Retold · tree and pragmatics
description: It was not long before she had driven all the rats and mice away; and then Dick could sleep soundly every night. Who acts: part, girl, Dick. A sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, II. the Kitchen., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fifty Famous Stories Retold, II. the Kitchen., sentence 35

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It was not long before she had driven all the rats and mice away; and then Dick could sleep soundly every night.

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**Who acts:** part, girl, Dick · **What happens:** not be, drive, sleep · **To what, where:** rats

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This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, II. the Kitchen.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (part, girl, Dick), 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:pg18442:50:35
# text = It was not long before she had driven all the rats and mice away; and then Dick could sleep soundly every night.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
6	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
7	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	driven	drive	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
9	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	11	det:predet	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	rats	rat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	mice	mouse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	conj	_	_
14	away	away	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	20	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
17	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	20	advmod	_	_
18	Dick	Dick	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
19	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	sleep	sleep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	conj	_	_
21	soundly	soundly	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
22	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	23	det	_	_
23	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **is** | past | part |  |  |  |  | long *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **drive** | past · perfect | girl | all rats and mice |  |  |  |  | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rat=Theme |
| 3 | **sleep** | could | Dick |  |  |  | then; night | soundly *property* | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: 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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