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title: She was often seen going to a basin of water to wash from her face t… — Fifty Famous Stories Retold · tree and pragmatics
description: She was often seen going to a basin of water to wash from her face the paint with which the ropedancers had red-dened her cheeks: indeed, she nearly rubbed off the skin in trying to wash away its fine brown tint, which she thought was some deep dye. Who acts: MIGNON, fine brown tint. A sentence of «
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# Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Antonio Canova., sentence 187

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She was often seen going to a basin of water to wash from her face the paint with which the ropedancers had red-dened her cheeks: indeed, she nearly rubbed off the skin in trying to wash away its fine brown tint, which she thought was some deep dye.

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**Who acts:** MIGNON, fine brown tint · **What happens:** see, go, wash, dene, rub off, try · **To what, where:** MIGNON, basin, paint, face, ropedancers, skin · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (MIGNON, fine brown tint), 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:pg18442:54:187
# text = She was often seen going to a basin of water to wash from her face the paint with which the ropedancers had red-dened her cheeks: indeed, she nearly rubbed off the skin in trying to wash away its fine brown tint, which she thought was some deep dye.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
3	often	often	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	going	go	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	xcomp	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	basin	basin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	wash	wash	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	advcl	_	_
13	from	from	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	paint	paint	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
18	with	with	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	25	obl	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	ropedancers	ropedancer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nsubj:pass	_	_
22	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
23	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	dened	dene	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	acl:relcl	_	_
26	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	cheeks	cheek	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	29	punct	_	_
29	indeed	indeed	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
31	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj	_	_
32	nearly	nearly	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
33	rubbed	rub	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
34	off	off	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	skin	skin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	_
37	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	38	mark	_	_
38	trying	try	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	33	advcl	_	_
39	to	to	PART	TO	_	40	mark	_	_
40	wash	wash	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	38	xcomp	_	_
41	away	away	ADV	RB	_	40	advmod	_	_
42	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	45	nmod:poss	_	_
43	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	45	amod	_	_
44	brown	brown	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	45	amod	_	_
45	tint	tint	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	49	punct	_	_
47	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	49	nsubj	_	_
48	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	49	nsubj	_	_
49	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	45	parataxis	_	_
50	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	53	cop	_	_
51	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	53	det	_	_
52	deep	deep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	53	amod	_	_
53	dye	dye	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | past · passive |  | MIGNON |  |  |  | indeed, often *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **go** | gerund | MIGNON *not said here* |  |  | a basin of water |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to basin=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **wash** | to-infinitive | MIGNON *not said here* | the paint |  | MIGNON's face |  |  | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent paint=Theme from face=Source |
| 4 | **dene** | past · perfect · passive |  | the ropedancers |  |  |  | with the paint | tree rules |
| 5 | **rub off** | past | MIGNON | the skin |  |  |  | nearly *property* | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent skin=Theme |
| 6 | **try** | gerund | MIGNON *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn try-61.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 7 | **wash away** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | MIGNON *not said here* | skin's fine brown tint |  |  |  | away *property* | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 8 | **think** *speech: other* | past | skin's fine brown tint |  |  |  |  |  | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 9 | **is a** | past |  | some deep dye |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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