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title: But of them all, the bravest and most gallant, was a Mr. Fox, whom s… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: But of them all, the bravest and most gallant, was a Mr. Fox, whom she met when she was down at her father's country-house. Who acts: 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 3

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But of them all, the bravest and most gallant, was a Mr. Fox, whom she met when she was down at her father's country-house.

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**Who acts:** Mary · **What happens:** be, meet · **To what, where:** Mr. Fox, country house

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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 (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:pg7439:29:3
# text = But of them all, the bravest and most gallant, was a Mr. Fox, whom she met when she was down at her father's country-house.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obl	_	_
4	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	3	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	bravest	brave	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	4	nmod	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	10	amod	_	_
10	gallant	gallant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
12	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	Fox	fox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	19	obj	_	_
18	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	met	meet	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	acl:relcl	_	_
20	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	23	advmod	_	_
21	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
22	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
23	down	down	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
24	at	at	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
25	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	's	's	PART	POS	_	26	case	_	_
28	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past |  | a Mr. Fox |  |  |  | of lovers *= lover* | tree rules |
| 2 | **meet** | past | Mary | a Mr. Fox |  |  |  |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent whom=Co-Agent |
| 3 | **is** | past | Mary |  |  | Mary's father's country house |  | down *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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