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title: "The boy stood on the burning deck Whence all but him had fled; The… — Fifty Famous Stories Retold · tree and pragmatics
description: "The boy stood on the burning deck Whence all but him had fled; The flame that lit the battle's wreck Shone round him o'er the dead. Who acts: boy, flame, battle. A sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, V. the Fortune., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every claus
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# Fifty Famous Stories Retold, V. the Fortune., sentence 86

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"The boy stood on the burning deck Whence all but him had fled; The flame that lit the battle's wreck Shone round him o'er the dead.

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**Who acts:** boy, flame, battle · **What happens:** stand, burn, flee, light, shine, wreck · **To what, where:** burning deck, boy, wreck

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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 (boy, flame, battle), 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:pg18442:53:86
# text = "The boy stood on the burning deck Whence all but him had fled; The flame that lit the battle's wreck Shone round him o'er the dead.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	on	on	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	burning	burn	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	8	amod	_	_
8	deck	deck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
9	Whence	whence	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	14	advmod	_	_
10	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	14	advmod	_	_
11	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
12	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj:pass	_	_
13	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	fled	flee	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	24	punct	_	_
16	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	flame	flame	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
18	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	19	nsubj	_	_
19	lit	light	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	acl:relcl	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	battle	battle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	's	's	PART	POS	_	21	case	_	_
23	wreck	wreck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
24	Shone	shine	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
25	round	round	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	obl	_	_
27	o'er	o'er	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stand** *in a quote* | past | the boy |  |  | the burning deck |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on deck=Location |
| 2 | **burn** *in a quote* | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **flee** *in a quote* | past · perfect · passive |  | boy |  |  |  | whence *property* | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **light** *in a quote* | past | the flame | the battle's wreck |  |  |  |  | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wreck=Product |
| 5 | **shine** *in a quote* | past | the flame |  |  |  |  | round boy; o'er the dead | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **wreck** *in a quote* |  | the battle |  |  |  |  |  | nom wreck «state transitive»: poss=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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