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title: So Lady Mary thought it was high time to get out of that horrid plac… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: So Lady Mary thought it was high time to get out of that horrid place, and she closed the door, went through the gallery, and was just going down the stairs, and out of the hall, when who should she see through the window, but Mr. Fox dragging a beautiful young lady along from the gateway to the doo
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# English Fairy Tales, Be Bold, Be Bold, But Not Too Bold., sentence 5

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So Lady Mary thought it was high time to get out of that horrid place, and she closed the door, went through the gallery, and was just going down the stairs, and out of the hall, when who should she see through the window, but Mr. Fox dragging a beautiful young lady along from the gateway to the door.

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**Who acts:** Lady, BLOOD, Mary, hall, Mr. Fox · **What happens:** think, be, get out, close, go, go down · **To what, where:** high time, horrid place, door, gallery, stairs, Mr. Fox · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Lady, BLOOD, Mary, hall), 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:pg7439:31:5
# text = So Lady Mary thought it was high time to get out of that horrid place, and she closed the door, went through the gallery, and was just going down the stairs, and out of the hall, when who should she see through the window, but Mr. Fox dragging a beautiful young lady along from the gateway to the door.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	Lady	Lady	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	Mary	Mary	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	flat	_	_
4	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
7	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	ccomp	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	acl	_	_
11	out	out	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	15	det	_	_
14	horrid	horrid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
18	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	closed	close	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
23	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
24	through	through	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	gallery	gallery	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
29	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
30	just	just	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
31	going	go	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	23	advcl	_	_
32	down	down	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	stairs	stair	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	40	cc	_	_
37	out	out	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
38	of	of	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	hall	hall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	46	punct	_	_
42	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	46	mark	_	_
43	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	46	nsubj	_	_
44	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	46	aux	_	_
45	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	46	nsubj	_	_
46	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	40	parataxis	_	_
47	through	through	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
48	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	49	det	_	_
49	window	window	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	53	punct	_	_
51	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	53	cc	_	_
52	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	53	compound	_	_
53	Fox	fox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	obl	_	_
54	dragging	drag	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	53	acl	_	_
55	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	58	det	_	_
56	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	58	amod	_	_
57	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	58	amod	_	_
58	lady	lady	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	54	obj	_	_
59	along	along	ADV	RB	_	54	advmod	_	_
60	from	from	ADP	IN	_	62	case	_	_
61	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	62	det	_	_
62	gateway	gateway	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	54	obl	_	_
63	to	to	ADP	IN	_	65	case	_	_
64	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	65	det	_	_
65	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	54	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
66	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **think** *speech: other* | past | Lady |  |  |  |  |  | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is a** | past | BLOOD | high time |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **get out** | to-infinitive | Lady *not said here* | that horrid place |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **close** | past | Mary | the door |  |  |  |  | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent door=Patient |
| 5 | **go** | past | Lady *not said here* |  |  | the gallery |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme through gallery=Initial\_Location |
| 6 | **go down** | past · progressive | Lady *not said here* | the stairs |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V NP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient stair=Extent |
| 7 | **see** | should | the hall | Mr. Fox |  | the window |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 8 | **drag** | gerund | Mr. Fox *not said here* | a beautiful young lady |  | the gateway |  | to the door; along *property* | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location PP.destination»: agent=Agent lady=Theme from gateway=Initial\_Location to door=Destination |

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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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