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title: Lady Mary rushed downstairs, and hid herself behind a cask, just in… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Lady Mary rushed downstairs, and hid herself behind a cask, just in time, as Mr. Fox came in with the poor young lady who seemed to have fainted. Who acts: Lady Mary, Mr. Fox, poor young lady. A sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Be Bold, Be Bold, But Not Too Bold., with its depende
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# English Fairy Tales, Be Bold, Be Bold, But Not Too Bold., sentence 6

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Lady Mary rushed downstairs, and hid herself behind a cask, just in time, as Mr. Fox came in with the poor young lady who seemed to have fainted.

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**Who acts:** Lady Mary, Mr. Fox, poor young lady · **What happens:** rush, hide, come in, seem, faint · **To what, where:** Mary, cask

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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 Mary, Mr. Fox, poor young lady), 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:pg7439:31:6
# text = Lady Mary rushed downstairs, and hid herself behind a cask, just in time, as Mr. Fox came in with the poor young lady who seemed to have fainted.
1	Lady	Lady	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	Mary	Mary	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	rushed	rush	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	downstairs	downstairs	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	hid	hide	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
8	herself	herself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	7	obj	_	_
9	behind	behind	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	cask	cask	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	just	just	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
18	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	Fox	fox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
20	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
21	in	in	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
22	with	with	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
24	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
25	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	lady	lady	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
27	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	28	nsubj	_	_
28	seemed	seem	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	acl:relcl	_	_
29	to	to	PART	TO	_	31	mark	_	_
30	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	31	aux	_	_
31	fainted	faint	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	28	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rush** | past | Lady Mary |  |  |  |  | downstairs *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **hide** | past |  | Mary |  | a cask and time |  |  | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent herself=Patient behind cask=Location |
| 3 | **come in** | past | Mr. Fox |  |  |  |  | with the poor young lady | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **seem** | past | the poor young lady |  |  |  |  |  | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute |
| 5 | **faint** | to-infinitive · perfect | the poor young lady *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn change\_bodily\_state-40.8.4 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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