--- title: At the sight of the fox lying within his grasp his mouth began to wa… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: At the sight of the fox lying within his grasp his mouth began to water, but his joy was somewhat checked when he noticed how thin she was. Who acts: fox, Wolf, village. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 6, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/6/62/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Orange Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/) / [Opening, part 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/6/) / 62 # The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 6, sentence 62 At the sight of the fox lying within his grasp his mouth began to water, but his joy was somewhat checked when he noticed how thin she was. **Who acts:** fox, Wolf, village · **What happens:** lie, begin, check, notice, be, sight · **To what, where:** grasp, water, sight, joy, fox · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fox, Wolf, village), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg3027:6:62 # text = At the sight of the fox lying within his grasp his mouth began to water, but his joy was somewhat checked when he noticed how thin she was. 1 At at ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 sight sight NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ _ 4 of of ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 fox fox NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nmod _ _ 7 lying lie VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 6 acl _ _ 8 within within ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 10 nmod:poss _ _ 10 grasp grasp NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 11 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 12 nmod:poss _ _ 12 mouth mouth NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obj _ _ 13 began begin VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 14 to to PART TO _ 15 mark _ _ 15 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 17 but but CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 18 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 19 nmod:poss _ _ 19 joy joy NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nsubj:pass _ _ 20 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 22 aux:pass _ _ 21 somewhat somewhat ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ _ 22 checked check VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 13 parataxis _ _ 23 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 25 advmod _ _ 24 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ _ 25 noticed notice VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 22 advcl _ _ 26 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 27 advmod _ _ 27 thin thin ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 ccomp _ _ 28 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 nsubj _ _ 29 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 27 cop _ SpaceAfter=No 30 . . PUNCT . _ 13 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **lie** | gerund | the fox *not said here* | Wolf's grasp | | | | | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location grasp=Theme | | 2 | **begin** | past | | water | | the sight of the fox | | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Eventuality | | 3 | **check** | past · passive | | Wolf's joy | | | | somewhat *property* | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | | 4 | **notice** | past | Wolf | | | | | | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer | | 5 | **is** | past | village | | | | | thin *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **sight** | | | the fox | | | | | nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=patient | | 7 | **grasp** | | Wolf | | | | | | nom grasp «cognition transitive»: poss=agent | | 8 | **joy** | | Wolf | | | | | | nom joy «feeling transitive»: poss=agent | 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:** «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order. - ← previous: [sentence 61](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/6/61/) - next →: [sentence 63](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/6/63/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/6/)