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title: "The table will be hand-som-er by half than I ever hoped to make it,… — Fifty Famous Stories Retold · tree and pragmatics
description: "The table will be hand-som-er by half than I ever hoped to make it," he said. Who acts: table, man. 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 50

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"The table will be hand-som-er by half than I ever hoped to make it," he said.

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**Who acts:** table, man · **What happens:** be, hope, make, say · **To what, where:** hand som er, half, table · **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 (table, man), 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:pg18442:54:50
# text = "The table will be hand-som-er by half than I ever hoped to make it," he said.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	table	table	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
4	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
5	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	cop	_	_
6	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	som	som	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	er	er	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	ccomp	_	_
11	by	by	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	half	half	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac	10	nmod	_	_
13	than	than	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
14	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
15	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	16	advmod	_	_
16	hoped	hope	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	acl	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	xcomp	_	_
19	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	_
22	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	23	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** *in a quote* | future | the table | hand som er |  |  |  | by half | tree rules |
| 2 | **hope** *in a quote* | past | man | half *not said here* |  |  | ever |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **make** *not said to happen, in a quote* | to-infinitive | man *not said here* | table |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset it=Product |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | man |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=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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