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title: The fox seized it in his mouth and ran off in triumph, while the mag… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The fox seized it in his mouth and ran off in triumph, while the magpie, though deeply grieved for the loss of his little one, found some comfort in the thought that only a bird of extraordinary wisdom would have dreamed of saving the rest by the sacrifice of the one. Who acts: fox. A sentence of «T
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 24, sentence 62

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The fox seized it in his mouth and ran off in triumph, while the magpie, though deeply grieved for the loss of his little one, found some comfort in the thought that only a bird of extraordinary wisdom would have dreamed of saving the rest by the sacrifice of the one.

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**Who acts:** fox · **What happens:** seize, run off, grieve, find, dream, save · **To what, where:** nest, mouth, magpie, triumph, comfort, thought

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This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 24. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fox), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg2435:24:62
# text = The fox seized it in his mouth and ran off in triumph, while the magpie, though deeply grieved for the loss of his little one, found some comfort in the thought that only a bird of extraordinary wisdom would have dreamed of saving the rest by the sacrifice of the one.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	fox	fox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	seized	seize	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	mouth	mouth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	ran	run	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
10	off	off	ADP	RP	_	9	compound:prt	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	triumph	triumph	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	magpie	magpie	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
19	deeply	deeply	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	grieved	grieve	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	conj	_	_
21	for	for	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	loss	loss	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
26	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
29	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
30	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	31	det	_	_
31	comfort	comfort	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	_
32	in	in	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	thought	thought	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	_
35	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	44	obj	_	_
36	only	only	ADV	RB	_	38	advmod	_	_
37	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	bird	bird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	nsubj:pass	_	_
39	of	of	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
40	extraordinary	extraordinary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	41	amod	_	_
41	wisdom	wisdom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	nmod	_	_
42	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	44	aux	_	_
43	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	44	aux	_	_
44	dreamed	dream	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	34	acl:relcl	_	_
45	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	46	mark	_	_
46	saving	save	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	44	advcl	_	_
47	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	48	det	_	_
48	rest	rest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	obj	_	_
49	by	by	ADP	IN	_	51	case	_	_
50	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	51	det	_	_
51	sacrifice	sacrifice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	obl	_	_
52	of	of	ADP	IN	_	54	case	_	_
53	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	54	det	_	_
54	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	51	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
55	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **seize** | past | the fox | nest |  | fox's mouth |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 2 | **run off** | past | the fox *not said here* | the magpie |  | triumph |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in triumph=Trajectory |
| 3 | **grieve** | participle | the fox *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for the loss of fox's little one; deeply *property* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **find** | past | the fox *not said here* | some comfort |  | the thought |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent comfort=Topic |
| 5 | **dream** | would · perfect · passive |  | a bird of extraordinary wisdom |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **save** | gerund |  | the rest |  |  |  | by the sacrifice of the one | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rest=Theme |
| 7 | **sacrifice** |  |  | the one |  |  |  |  | nom sacrifice «act transitive»: of=patient |

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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.

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**Text:** «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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