--- title: So one day, near the wedding-day, when her brothers were out, and Mr… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: So one day, near the wedding-day, when her brothers were out, and Mr. Fox was away for a day or two on business, as he said, Lady Mary set out for Mr. Fox's castle. Who acts: Fox, Lady. A sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Mr. Fox, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ever --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/29/7/) [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/) / [English Fairy Tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/) / [Mr. Fox](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/29/) / 7 # English Fairy Tales, Mr. Fox, sentence 7 So one day, near the wedding-day, when her brothers were out, and Mr. Fox was away for a day or two on business, as he said, Lady Mary set out for Mr. Fox's castle. **Who acts:** Fox, Lady · **What happens:** be, say, set out · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (Fox, Lady), 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:pg7439:29:7 # text = So one day, near the wedding-day, when her brothers were out, and Mr. Fox was away for a day or two on business, as he said, Lady Mary set out for Mr. Fox's castle. 1 So so ADV RB _ 32 advmod _ _ 2 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 3 nummod _ _ 3 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obl:unmarked _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 5 near near ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 7 wedding wedding NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 8 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 7 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 9 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 11 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 14 advmod _ _ 12 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 13 nmod:poss _ _ 13 brothers brother NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 nsubj _ _ 14 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 21 cop _ _ 15 out out ADP RP _ 14 compound:prt _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 18 Mr. Mr. PROPN NNP Number=Sing 19 nmod:desc _ _ 19 Fox Fox PROPN NNP Number=Sing 21 nsubj _ _ 20 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 21 cop _ _ 21 away away ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ _ 22 for for ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obl _ _ 25 or or CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 26 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 24 conj _ _ 27 on on ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 28 business business NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 29 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 30 as as SCONJ IN _ 32 mark _ _ 31 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 32 nsubj _ _ 32 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 33 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 34 Lady Lady PROPN NNP Number=Sing 36 nsubj _ _ 35 Mary Mary PROPN NNP Number=Sing 34 flat _ _ 36 set set VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 32 ccomp _ _ 37 out out ADP RP _ 36 compound:prt _ _ 38 for for ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 39 Mr. Mr. PROPN NNP Number=Sing 40 nmod:desc _ _ 40 Fox Fox PROPN NNP Number=Sing 42 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 41 's 's PART POS _ 40 case _ _ 42 castle castle NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 43 . . PUNCT . _ 32 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | past | Fox Mr. | | | | day | away *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Fox | | | | day | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **set out** | past | Lady | | | | | for Fox Mr.'s castle | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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:** «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. - ← previous: [sentence 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/29/6/) - next →: [sentence 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/29/8/) - ↑ back to [Mr. Fox](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/29/)