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title: He was shown into a beautiful room, and given a seat on a rich carpe… — Fifty Famous Stories Retold · tree and pragmatics
description: He was shown into a beautiful room, and given a seat on a rich carpet all flow-ered with silver and gold. Who acts: rich carpet. A sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, IV. the Cat., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fifty Famous Stories Retold, IV. the Cat., sentence 5

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He was shown into a beautiful room, and given a seat on a rich carpet all flow-ered with silver and gold.

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**Who acts:** rich carpet · **What happens:** show, give, er · **To what, where:** king, beautiful room, seat, rich carpet, all

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This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, IV. the Cat.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (rich carpet), 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:pg18442:52:5
# text = He was shown into a beautiful room, and given a seat on a rich carpet all flow-ered with silver and gold.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	shown	show	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	into	into	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	given	give	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	seat	seat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	on	on	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	rich	rich	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	carpet	carpet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
17	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	20	nsubj:pass	_	_
18	flow	flow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	ered	er	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	acl:relcl	_	_
21	with	with	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	silver	silver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **show** | past · passive |  | king |  | a beautiful room |  |  | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Patient into room=Recipient |
| 2 | **give** | participle |  | a seat |  | a rich carpet |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.asset»: agent=Agent seat=Theme on carpet=Asset |
| 3 | **er** | participle · passive | a rich carpet *not said here* | all |  |  |  | with silver and gold | tree rules |

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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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