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title: Lastly came the youngest brother, Henry, with quiet steps and a sobe… — Fifty Famous Stories Retold · tree and pragmatics
description: Lastly came the youngest brother, Henry, with quiet steps and a sober, thought-ful look. Who acts: youngest brother. A sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, The Sons of William the Conqueror., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Sons of William the Conqueror., sentence 22

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Lastly came the youngest brother, Henry, with quiet steps and a sober, thought-ful look.

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**Who acts:** youngest brother · **What happens:** come, think

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This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, The Sons of William the Conqueror.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (youngest brother), 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:pg18442:6:22
# text = Lastly came the youngest brother, Henry, with quiet steps and a sober, thought-ful look.
1	Lastly	lastly	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	youngest	young	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	5	amod	_	_
5	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	Henry	Henry	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	with	with	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	quiet	quiet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	steps	step	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
14	sober	sober	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
16	thought	think	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	ful	ful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	look	look	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	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 | **come** | past | the youngest brother |  |  |  |  | with quiet steps and a sober thought ful look; lastly *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **think** *speech: other* | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: 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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