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title: Lady Mary was young, and Lady Mary was fair. — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Lady Mary was young, and Lady Mary was fair. Who acts: Lady Mary. A sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Mr. Fox, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# English Fairy Tales, Mr. Fox, sentence 1

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Lady Mary was young, and Lady Mary was fair.

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**Who acts:** Lady Mary · **What happens:** be

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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), 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:pg7439:29:1
# text = Lady Mary was young, and Lady Mary was fair.
1	Lady	Lady	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	Mary	Mary	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
7	Lady	Lady	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	Mary	Mary	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
9	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
10	fair	fair	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | Lady Mary |  |  |  |  | young *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | past | Lady Mary |  |  |  |  | fair *property* | tree rules |

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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:** «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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