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title: As he sat there very sad, and wondering which way he should go, he h… — Fifty Famous Stories Retold · tree and pragmatics
description: As he sat there very sad, and wondering which way he should go, he heard the bells on Bow Church, far away, ringing out a merry chime. Who acts: Dick. A sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, III. the Venture., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fifty Famous Stories Retold, III. the Venture., sentence 24

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As he sat there very sad, and wondering which way he should go, he heard the bells on Bow Church, far away, ringing out a merry chime.

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**Who acts:** Dick · **What happens:** sit, wonder, go, hear, ring out · **To what, where:** way, bells, Bow Church, merry chime

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This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, III. the Venture.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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:pg18442:51:24
# text = As he sat there very sad, and wondering which way he should go, he heard the bells on Bow Church, far away, ringing out a merry chime.
1	As	as	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	advcl	_	_
4	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
5	very	very	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	sad	sad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	wondering	wonder	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	advcl	_	_
10	which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	11	det	_	_
11	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
13	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
16	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	heard	hear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	bells	bell	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obj	_	_
20	on	on	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	Bow	Bow	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	Church	Church	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	25	advmod	_	_
25	away	away	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
27	ringing	ring	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	17	advcl	_	_
28	out	out	ADP	RP	_	27	compound:prt	_	_
29	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	merry	merry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	chime	chime	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sit** | past | Dick |  |  | there |  | sad *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **wonder** *speech: ask* | gerund | Dick *not said here* | which way |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **go** | should | Dick | which way *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location way=Theme |
| 4 | **hear** | past | Dick | the bells |  | Bow Church |  | away *property* | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer bell=Stimulus |
| 5 | **ring out** | gerund | Dick *not said here* | a merry chime |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location chime=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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