English Fairy Tales, Mr. Fox, sentence 3

But of them all, the bravest and most gallant, was a Mr. Fox, whom she met when she was down at her father's country-house.

Who acts: Mary · What happens: be, meet · To what, where: Mr. Fox, country house

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 (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	But	but	CCONJ	_	15 Fox	cc
2	of	of	ADP	_	3 them	case
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 Fox	obl
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 them	nmod:unmarked
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 bravest	punct
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 bravest	det
7	bravest	brave	ADJ	Degree=Sup	4 all	nmod
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 gallant	cc
9	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	10 gallant	amod
10	gallant	gallant	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 bravest	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 them	punct
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 Fox	cop
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 Fox	det
14	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 Fox	compound
15	Fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 met	punct
17	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 met	obj
18	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 met	nsubj
19	met	meet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 Fox	acl:relcl
20	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	23 down	advmod
21	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 down	nsubj
22	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 down	cop
23	down	down	ADV	_	19 met	advmod
24	at	at	ADP	_	30 house	case
25	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 father	nmod:poss
26	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 house	nmod:poss
27	's	's	PART	_	26 father	case
28	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 house	compound
29	-	-	PUNCT	_	28 country	punct
30	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 down	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 Fox	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	past		a Mr. Fox		of lovers = lover	tree rules
2	meet	past	Mary	a Mr. Fox			vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent whom=Co-Agent
3	is	past	Mary		Mary's father's country house	down 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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