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title: After that, Whittington's face was washed, and his hair curled, and… — Fifty Famous Stories Retold · tree and pragmatics
description: After that, Whittington's face was washed, and his hair curled, and he was dressed in a nice suit of clothes; and then he was as handsome a young man as ever walked the streets of London. Who acts: hair, boy. A sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, V. the Fortune., with its dep
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# Fifty Famous Stories Retold, V. the Fortune., sentence 30

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After that, Whittington's face was washed, and his hair curled, and he was dressed in a nice suit of clothes; and then he was as handsome a young man as ever walked the streets of London.

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**Who acts:** hair, boy · **What happens:** wash, curl, dress, be, walk · **To what, where:** face, boy, nice suit, streets

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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 (hair, boy), 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:pg18442:53:30
# text = After that, Whittington's face was washed, and his hair curled, and he was dressed in a nice suit of clothes; and then he was as handsome a young man as ever walked the streets of London.
1	After	after	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	Whittington	Whittington	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	's	's	PART	POS	_	4	case	_	_
6	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj:pass	_	_
7	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux:pass	_	_
8	washed	wash	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
11	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	hair	hair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
13	curled	curl	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
16	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
17	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux:pass	_	_
18	dressed	dress	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	conj	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	nice	nice	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	suit	suit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	clothes	clothes	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	31	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
27	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	31	advmod	_	_
28	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
29	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	cop	_	_
30	as	as	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	handsome	handsome	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	conj	_	_
32	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
33	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nsubj	_	_
35	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	37	mark	_	_
36	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	37	advmod	_	_
37	walked	walk	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	advcl	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	streets	street	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	37	obj	_	_
40	of	of	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
41	London	London	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	39	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wash** | past · passive |  | Whittington's face |  |  |  |  | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 2 | **curl** | participle | boy's hair |  |  |  |  |  | vn coil-9.6-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **dress** | past · passive |  | boy |  | a nice suit of clothes |  |  | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 4 | **is** | past | boy |  |  |  | then | handsome *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **walk** | past | boy *not said here* | the streets of London |  |  | ever |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme street=Trajectory |

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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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