--- title: He gave nice presents to the cap-tain and the sailors, and to the se… — Fifty Famous Stories Retold · tree and pragmatics description: He gave nice presents to the cap-tain and the sailors, and to the servants in Mr. Fitz-warren's house. Who acts: boy. A sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, V. the Fortune., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/53/28/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Fifty Famous Stories Retold](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/) / [V. the Fortune.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/53/) / 28 # Fifty Famous Stories Retold, V. the Fortune., sentence 28 He gave nice presents to the cap-tain and the sailors, and to the servants in Mr. Fitz-warren's house. **Who acts:** boy · **What happens:** give · **To what, where:** nice presents, cap tain This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, V. the Fortune.. 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. **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:pg18442:53:28 # text = He gave nice presents to the cap-tain and the sailors, and to the servants in Mr. Fitz-warren's house. 1 He he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 gave give VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 nice nice ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 presents present NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obj _ _ 5 to to ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 7 cap cap NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 8 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 7 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 9 tain tain NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 sailors sailor NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 15 to to ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 servants servant NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obl _ _ 18 in in ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 Mr. Mr. PROPN NNP Number=Sing 20 nmod:desc _ _ 20 Fitz Fitz PROPN NNP Number=Sing 17 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 21 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 20 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 22 warren Warren PROPN NNP Number=Sing 24 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 23 's 's PART POS _ 22 case _ _ 24 house house NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 25 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **give** | past | boy | nice presents | the cap tain and the sailors | | | to the servants in Fitz Mr. | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent present=Theme to tain=Recipient | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 27](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/53/27/) - next →: [sentence 29](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/53/29/) - ↑ back to [V. the Fortune.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/53/)