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title: Mr. Fox looked about a bit, but did not think of looking behind the… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Mr. Fox looked about a bit, but did not think of looking behind the cask, so at last he went on dragging the young lady up the stairs into the Bloody Chamber. Who acts: Fox. A sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Be Bold, Be Bold, But Not Too Bold., with its dependency tree and the pr
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# English Fairy Tales, Be Bold, Be Bold, But Not Too Bold., sentence 10

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Mr. Fox looked about a bit, but did not think of looking behind the cask, so at last he went on dragging the young lady up the stairs into the Bloody Chamber.

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**Who acts:** Fox · **What happens:** look, not think, go, drag · **To what, where:** last, young lady, Bloody Chamber

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This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Be Bold, Be Bold, But Not Too Bold.. 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:pg7439:31:10
# text = Mr. Fox looked about a bit, but did not think of looking behind the cask, so at last he went on dragging the young lady up the stairs into the Bloody Chamber.
1	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod:desc	_	_
2	Fox	Fox	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	about	about	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	bit	bit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
9	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
10	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	11	advmod	_	_
11	think	think	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
12	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
13	looking	look	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	advcl	_	_
14	behind	behind	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	cask	cask	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
18	so	so	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
19	at	at	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	last	last	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
21	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
23	on	on	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
24	dragging	drag	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	22	advcl	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	lady	lady	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
28	up	up	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	stairs	stair	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obl	_	_
31	into	into	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
33	Bloody	bloody	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	Chamber	Chamber	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look** | past | Fox  Mr. |  |  |  |  | about a bit | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent about bit=Theme |
| 2 | **not** **think** *speech: other* | past · do-support | Fox  Mr. *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **look** | gerund | Fox  Mr. *not said here* |  |  |  |  | behind the cask | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent behind cask=Theme |
| 4 | **go** | past | Fox |  |  | last |  |  | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme at last=Location |
| 5 | **drag** | gerund | Fox *not said here* | the young lady |  | the Bloody Chamber |  | up the stairs | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lady=Theme |

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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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