--- title: Just as he got near Lady Mary, Mr. Fox saw a diamond ring glittering… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: Just as he got near Lady Mary, Mr. Fox saw a diamond ring glittering on the finger of the young lady he was dragging, and he tried to pull it off. Who acts: Fox, diamond ring. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Fox, diamond ring), 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:pg7439:31:7 # text = Just as he got near Lady Mary, Mr. Fox saw a diamond ring glittering on the finger of the young lady he was dragging, and he tried to pull it off. 1 Just just ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 2 as as SCONJ IN _ 4 mark _ _ 3 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 4 got get VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 near near ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 Lady Lady PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 compound _ _ 7 Mary Mary PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 9 Mr. Mr. PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 nmod:desc _ _ 10 Fox Fox PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ _ 11 saw see VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 acl:relcl _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 13 diamond diamond ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 ring ring NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obj _ _ 15 glittering glitter VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 14 acl _ _ 16 on on ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 finger finger NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ _ 19 of of ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 21 young young ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 22 lady lady NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nmod _ _ 23 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ _ 24 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 25 aux _ _ 25 dragging drag VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 22 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 26 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 28 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 nsubj _ _ 29 tried try VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 30 to to PART TO _ 31 mark _ _ 31 pull pull VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 29 xcomp _ _ 32 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 31 obj _ _ 33 off off ADP RP _ 31 compound:prt _ SpaceAfter=No 34 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **get** | past | Fox | | | Lady Mary | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer | | 2 | **see** | past | Fox Mr. | a diamond ring | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer ring=Stimulus | | 3 | **glitter** | gerund | a diamond ring *not said here* | | | the finger of the young lady | | | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on finger=Location | | 4 | **drag** | past · progressive | Fox | the young lady *not said here* | | | | | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lady=Theme | | 5 | **try** | past | Fox | | | | | | vn try-61.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 6 | **pull off** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Fox *not said here* | ring | | | | | vn complete-55.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality | 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/pg7439/31/6/) - next →: [sentence 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/31/8/) - ↑ back to [Be Bold, Be Bold, But Not Too Bold.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/31/)