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title: And when Mr. Fox was seated at table opposite Lady Mary, he looked a… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: And when Mr. Fox was seated at table opposite Lady Mary, he looked at her. 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 pragmatics of every clause.
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# English Fairy Tales, Be Bold, Be Bold, But Not Too Bold., sentence 13

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And when Mr. Fox was seated at table opposite Lady Mary, he looked at her.

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**Who acts:** Fox · **What happens:** seat, look · **To what, where:** Fox, table opposite

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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:pg7439:31:13
# text = And when Mr. Fox was seated at table opposite Lady Mary, he looked at her.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
2	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	6	mark	_	_
3	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod:desc	_	_
4	Fox	Fox	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux:pass	_	_
6	seated	seat	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	advcl	_	_
7	at	at	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	table	table	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	opposite	opposite	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
10	Lady	Lady	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	Mary	Mary	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
13	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
15	at	at	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **seat** | past · passive |  | Fox  Mr. |  | table opposite |  |  | vn fit-54.3 «NP.location V NP»: subject=Value |
| 2 | **look** | past | Fox |  |  |  |  | at Mary | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at she=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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