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title: He had never thought of such things before, and yet he had often see… — Fifty Famous Stories Retold · tree and pragmatics
description: He had never thought of such things before, and yet he had often seen whole gardens of flowers in bloom. Who acts: heart. A sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Antonio Canova., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Antonio Canova., sentence 116

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He had never thought of such things before, and yet he had often seen whole gardens of flowers in bloom.

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**Who acts:** heart · **What happens:** not think, see · **To what, where:** whole gardens, bloom

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This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Antonio Canova.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (heart), 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:pg18442:54:116
# text = He had never thought of such things before, and yet he had often seen whole gardens of flowers in bloom.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	thought	think	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
8	before	before	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
11	yet	yet	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
12	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
13	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
14	often	often	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	4	conj	_	_
16	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	gardens	garden	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	flowers	flower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nmod	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	bloom	bloom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **think** *speech: other* | past · perfect | heart |  |  |  |  | of such things; before *property* | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **see** | past · perfect | heart | whole gardens of flowers |  | bloom | yet | often *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer garden=Stimulus |

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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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