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title: There was yet another way in which Mignon tried to please Wilhelm, a… — Fifty Famous Stories Retold · tree and pragmatics
description: There was yet another way in which Mignon tried to please Wilhelm, and make him forget his cares. Who acts: way, Mignon, Wilhelm. 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 221

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There was yet another way in which Mignon tried to please Wilhelm, and make him forget his cares.

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**Who acts:** way, Mignon, Wilhelm · **What happens:** be, try, please, make, forget, care · **To what, where:** way, Wilhelm, cares

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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 (way, Mignon, Wilhelm), 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:pg18442:54:221
# text = There was yet another way in which Mignon tried to please Wilhelm, and make him forget his cares.
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	2	expl	_	_
2	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	yet	yet	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
4	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	5	det	_	_
5	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	9	obl	_	_
8	Mignon	Mignon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	tried	try	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	acl:relcl	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	please	please	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	xcomp	_	_
12	Wilhelm	Wilhelm	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	conj	_	_
16	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obj	_	_
17	forget	forget	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	xcomp	_	_
18	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	cares	care	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | past | another way |  |  | there | yet |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **try** | past | Mignon |  |  | another way |  |  | vn try-61.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 3 | **please** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Mignon *not said here* | Wilhelm |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus wilhelm=Experiencer |
| 4 | **make** | infinitive | Mignon *not said here* | Wilhelm |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **forget** | infinitive | Wilhelm *not said here* | Wilhelm's cares |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **care** |  | Wilhelm |  |  |  |  |  | nom care «act intransitive»: 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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