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title: On the arch-way in front of the prison was a figure, cut in stone, o… — Fifty Famous Stories Retold · tree and pragmatics
description: On the arch-way in front of the prison was a figure, cut in stone, of Sir Richard Whittington and his cat; and for three hundred years this figure was shown to all who visited London. Who acts: figure. A sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, V. the Fortune., with its dependency
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# Fifty Famous Stories Retold, V. the Fortune., sentence 36

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On the arch-way in front of the prison was a figure, cut in stone, of Sir Richard Whittington and his cat; and for three hundred years this figure was shown to all who visited London.

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**Who acts:** figure · **What happens:** be, cut, show, visit · **To what, where:** figure, arch-way, stone, all, London

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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 (figure), 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:pg18442:53:36
# text = On the arch-way in front of the prison was a figure, cut in stone, of Sir Richard Whittington and his cat; and for three hundred years this figure was shown to all who visited London.
1	On	on	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	arch-way	arch-way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	front	front	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	prison	prison	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
9	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	figure	figure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	cut	cut	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	acl	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	stone	stone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	Sir	Sir	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	Richard	Richard	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
20	Whittington	Whittington	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	flat	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
22	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	cat	cat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	33	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
26	for	for	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
27	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	28	compound	_	_
28	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	29	nummod	_	_
29	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	obl	_	_
30	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	31	det	_	_
31	figure	figure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nsubj:pass	_	_
32	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	33	aux:pass	_	_
33	shown	show	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	acl	_	_
34	to	to	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	33	obl	_	_
36	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	37	nsubj	_	_
37	visited	visit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	35	acl:relcl	_	_
38	London	London	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	37	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past |  | a figure |  | the arch-way in front of the prison |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **cut** | participle |  | a figure *not said here* |  | stone |  | of Sir Richard and Richard's cat | vn meander-47.7 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme of richard=Location |
| 3 | **show** | past · passive | a figure *not said here* | this figure | all |  | year |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Topic to all=Recipient |
| 4 | **visit** | past |  | London |  |  |  |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent london=Co-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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