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title: He was so full of joy that he lifted up his eyes, and thanked Heaven… — Fifty Famous Stories Retold · tree and pragmatics
description: He was so full of joy that he lifted up his eyes, and thanked Heaven for sending him such good fortune. Who acts: Fitzwarren. A sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, V. the Fortune., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fifty Famous Stories Retold, V. the Fortune., sentence 8

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He was so full of joy that he lifted up his eyes, and thanked Heaven for sending him such good fortune.

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**Who acts:** Fitzwarren · **What happens:** be, lift up, thank, send · **To what, where:** eyes, Heaven, such good fortune, Fitzwarren

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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 (Fitzwarren), 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:pg18442:53:8
# text = He was so full of joy that he lifted up his eyes, and thanked Heaven for sending him such good fortune.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	so	so	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	joy	joy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
7	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
8	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	lifted	lift	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	_
10	up	up	ADP	RP	_	9	compound:prt	_	_
11	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	thanked	thank	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
16	Heaven	Heaven	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
17	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
18	sending	send	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	15	advcl	_	_
19	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obj	_	_
20	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
21	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	fortune	fortune	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | Fitzwarren |  |  |  |  | of joy; full *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **lift up** | past | Fitzwarren | Fitzwarren's eyes |  |  |  |  | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Theme |
| 3 | **thank** *speech: thank* | past | Fitzwarren *not said here* |  | Heaven |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heaven=Theme |
| 4 | **send** | gerund | Fitzwarren *not said here* | such good fortune | Fitzwarren |  |  |  | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Destination fortune=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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