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title: This made the Count's friends wonder still more; and the Count bade… — Fifty Famous Stories Retold · tree and pragmatics
description: This made the Count's friends wonder still more; and the Count bade the servant call the boy into the room. Who acts: This, friends, Count bade. 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 58

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This made the Count's friends wonder still more; and the Count bade the servant call the boy into the room.

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**Who acts:** This, friends, Count bade · **What happens:** make, wonder, call · **To what, where:** more, boy, room · **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 (This, friends, Count bade), 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:pg18442:54:58
# text = This made the Count's friends wonder still more; and the Count bade the servant call the boy into the room.
1	This	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	nsubj	_	_
2	made	make	VERB	VBD	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	Count	Count	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	's	's	PART	POS	_	4	case	_	_
6	friends	friend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
7	wonder	wonder	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	ccomp	_	_
8	still	still	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	Count	Count	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	bade	bade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	servant	servant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
17	call	call	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	parataxis	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
20	into	into	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | past | This |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **wonder** *speech: ask* | present | the Count's friends | more |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **call** | infinitive | the Count bade | the boy |  | the room |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent boy=Topic into room=Recipient |

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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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