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title: Then the fox came up and said, "Why, Mr Shaggy Matthew! — Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Then the fox came up and said, "Why, Mr Shaggy Matthew! Who acts: fox. A sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Fox and the Cat, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Fox and the Cat, sentence 3

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Then the fox came up and said, "Why, Mr Shaggy Matthew!

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**Who acts:** fox · **What happens:** come up, say · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Fox and the Cat. 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:pg29672:13:3
# text = Then the fox came up and said, "Why, Mr Shaggy Matthew!
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	fox	fox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	up	up	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	Mr	Mr	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
13	Shaggy	Shaggy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	flat	_	_
14	Matthew	Matthew	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come up** | past | the fox |  |  |  | then |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the fox *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |

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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:** «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», Project Gutenberg book 29672 (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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