English Fairy Tales, Mr. Fox, sentence 7
So one day, near the wedding-day, when her brothers were out, and Mr. Fox was away for a day or two on business, as he said, Lady Mary set out for Mr. Fox's castle.
Who acts: Fox, Lady · What happens: be, say, set out · 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 (Fox, Lady), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 32 said | advmod |
| 2 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 day | nummod |
| 3 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 said | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 day | punct |
| 5 | near | near | ADP | _ | 9 day | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 day | det |
| 7 | wedding | wedding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 day | compound |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 wedding | punct |
| 9 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 day | appos |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 were | punct |
| 11 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 14 were | advmod |
| 12 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 brothers | nmod:poss |
| 13 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 were | nsubj |
| 14 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 away | cop |
| 15 | out | out | ADP | _ | 14 were | compound:prt |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 away | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 away | cc |
| 18 | Mr. | Mr. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 Fox | nmod:desc |
| 19 | Fox | Fox | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 away | nsubj |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 away | cop |
| 21 | away | away | ADV | _ | 9 day | advmod |
| 22 | for | for | ADP | _ | 24 day | case |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 day | det |
| 24 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 away | obl |
| 25 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 26 two | cc |
| 26 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 24 day | conj |
| 27 | on | on | ADP | _ | 28 business | case |
| 28 | business | business | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 two | nmod |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 said | punct |
| 30 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 32 said | mark |
| 31 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 said | nsubj |
| 32 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 said | punct |
| 34 | Lady | Lady | PROPN | Number=Sing | 36 set | nsubj |
| 35 | Mary | Mary | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 Lady | flat |
| 36 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 said | ccomp |
| 37 | out | out | ADP | _ | 36 set | compound:prt |
| 38 | for | for | ADP | _ | 42 castle | case |
| 39 | Mr. | Mr. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 40 Fox | nmod:desc |
| 40 | Fox | Fox | PROPN | Number=Sing | 42 castle | nmod:poss |
| 41 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 40 Fox | case |
| 42 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 set | obl |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 32 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Fox Mr. | day | away property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Fox | day | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | set out | past | Lady | for Fox Mr.'s castle | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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