English Fairy Tales, Mr. Fox, sentence 1

Lady Mary was young, and Lady Mary was fair.

Who acts: Lady Mary · What happens: be

This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Mr. Fox. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Lady Mary), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Lady	Lady	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Mary	compound
2	Mary	Mary	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 young	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 young	cop
4	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 fair	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 fair	cc
7	Lady	Lady	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 Mary	compound
8	Mary	Mary	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 fair	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 fair	cop
10	fair	fair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 young	conj
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 young	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	Lady Mary					young property	tree rules
2	is	past	Lady Mary					fair property	tree rules

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.

Text: «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7439 (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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