English Fairy Tales, Mr. Fox, sentence 4
No one knew who Mr. Fox was; but he was certainly brave, and surely rich, and of all her lovers, Lady Mary cared for him alone.
Who acts: one, Fox, all · What happens: know, be, care · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (one, Fox, all), 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 | No | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 2 one | det |
| 2 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 knew | nsubj |
| 3 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 knew | ccomp |
| 5 | Mr. | Mr. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Fox | nmod:desc |
| 6 | Fox | Fox | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 who | nsubj |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 who | cop |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 brave | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 brave | cc |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 brave | nsubj |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 brave | cop |
| 12 | certainly | certainly | ADV | _ | 13 brave | advmod |
| 13 | brave | brave | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 knew | parataxis |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 rich | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 rich | cc |
| 16 | surely | surely | ADV | _ | 17 rich | advmod |
| 17 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 brave | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 cared | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 cared | cc |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 all | case |
| 21 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 27 cared | nsubj |
| 22 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 lovers | nmod:poss |
| 23 | lovers | lover | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 all | obj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 all | punct |
| 25 | Lady | Lady | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 Mary | compound |
| 26 | Mary | Mary | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 all | nmod |
| 27 | cared | care | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 knew | parataxis |
| 28 | for | for | ADP | _ | 29 him | case |
| 29 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 cared | obl |
| 30 | alone | alone | ADV | _ | 27 cared | advmod |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 knew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | past | no one | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | is a | past | Fox Mr. | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | is | past | Fox | brave, certainly property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | be | Fox not said here | surely property | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | care | past | all | for Fox; alone property | vn caring-75.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent for he=Theme |
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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