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title: Sometimes the Count would have a grand dinner, and his rich friends… — Fifty Famous Stories Retold · tree and pragmatics
description: Sometimes the Count would have a grand dinner, and his rich friends from other towns would come to visit him. Who acts: Count, rich friends. 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 15

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Sometimes the Count would have a grand dinner, and his rich friends from other towns would come to visit him.

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**Who acts:** Count, rich friends · **What happens:** have, come, visit · **To what, where:** grand dinner, Count

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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 (Count, rich friends), 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:pg18442:54:15
# text = Sometimes the Count would have a grand dinner, and his rich friends from other towns would come to visit him.
1	Sometimes	sometimes	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	5	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	Count	count	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	grand	grand	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	dinner	dinner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
11	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
12	rich	rich	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	friends	friend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nsubj	_	_
14	from	from	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	towns	town	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nmod	_	_
17	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	visit	visit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	xcomp	_	_
21	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | would | the Count | a grand dinner |  |  |  | sometimes *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dinner=Patient |
| 2 | **come** | would | Count's rich friends from other towns |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **visit** | to-infinitive | Count's rich friends from other towns *not said here* | Count |  |  |  |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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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