English Fairy Tales, Mr. Fox, sentence 6
Lady Mary asked Mr. Fox where they should live, and he described to her his castle, and where it was; but, strange to say, did not ask her, or her brothers to come and see it.
Who acts: Lady Mary, lovers, Fox, castle · What happens: ask, live, describe, be, say, not ask · To what, where: Mr. Fox, castle, Mary, brothers · 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 (Lady Mary, lovers, Fox, castle), 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 | 3 asked | nsubj |
| 3 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | Mr. | Mr. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Fox | compound |
| 5 | Fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 asked | obj |
| 6 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 9 live | advmod |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 live | nsubj |
| 8 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 live | aux |
| 9 | live | live | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 Fox | acl:relcl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 described | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 described | cc |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 described | nsubj |
| 13 | described | describe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 asked | parataxis |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 her | case |
| 15 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 described | obl |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 castle | nmod:poss |
| 17 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 described | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 was | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 was | cc |
| 20 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 22 was | advmod |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 was | nsubj |
| 22 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 asked | parataxis |
| 23 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 26 strange | punct |
| 24 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 26 strange | cc |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 strange | punct |
| 26 | strange | strange | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 asked | parataxis |
| 27 | to | to | PART | _ | 28 say | mark |
| 28 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 strange | csubj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 ask | punct |
| 30 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 ask | aux |
| 31 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 32 ask | advmod |
| 32 | ask | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 28 say | conj |
| 33 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 ask | iobj |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 brothers | punct |
| 35 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 37 brothers | cc |
| 36 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 37 brothers | nmod:poss |
| 37 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 ask | obl |
| 38 | to | to | PART | _ | 39 come | mark |
| 39 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 37 brothers | acl |
| 40 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 see | cc |
| 41 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 39 come | conj |
| 42 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 41 see | obj |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | past | Lady Mary | Mr. Fox | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent fox=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | live | should | lovers = lover | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | describe | past | Fox | Fox's castle | Mary | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: agent=Agent castle=Theme to she=be' | |||
| 4 | be | past | castle | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | say speech: assert | to-infinitive | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 6 | not ask speech: ask | past · do-support | Mary's brothers | Mary | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient | ||||
| 7 | come | to-infinitive | Mary's brothers not said here | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 8 | see | infinitive | castle | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus |
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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