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title: Already the flowers had with-ered; the leaves would soon fall from t… — Fifty Famous Stories Retold · tree and pragmatics
description: Already the flowers had with-ered; the leaves would soon fall from the stem. Who acts: flowers, leaves. 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 136

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Already the flowers had with-ered; the leaves would soon fall from the stem.

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**Who acts:** flowers, leaves · **What happens:** have, er, fall · **To what, where:** stem

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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 (flowers, leaves), 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:pg18442:54:136
# text = Already the flowers had with-ered; the leaves would soon fall from the stem.
1	Already	already	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	flowers	flower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	with	with	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	ered	er	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	leaves	leaf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	_
11	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
12	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	13	advmod	_	_
13	fall	fall	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
14	from	from	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	stem	stem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | the flowers |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **er** | participle | the flowers *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **fall** | would | the leaves |  |  | the stem |  | soon *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from stem=Initial\_Location |

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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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