--- title: “I rushed downstairs, just in time to hide myself behind a cask, whe… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: “I rushed downstairs, just in time to hide myself behind a cask, when you, Mr. Fox, came in dragging the young lady by the arm. Who acts: Mr. Fox, you. 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 clau --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/33/11/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [English Fairy Tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/) / [Be Bold, Be Bold, But Not Too Bold.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/33/) / 11 # English Fairy Tales, Be Bold, Be Bold, But Not Too Bold., sentence 11 “I rushed downstairs, just in time to hide myself behind a cask, when you, Mr. Fox, came in dragging the young lady by the arm. **Who acts:** Mr. Fox, you · **What happens:** rush, hide, come, drag · **To what, where:** Mr. Fox, cask, young lady 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 (Mr. Fox, you), 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:pg7439:33:11 # text = “I rushed downstairs, just in time to hide myself behind a cask, when you, Mr. Fox, came in dragging the young lady by the arm. 1 “ " PUNCT `` _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 rushed rush VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 downstairs downstairs ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 6 just just ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ _ 7 in in ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 9 to to PART TO _ 10 mark _ _ 10 hide hide VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 acl _ _ 11 myself myself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 10 obj _ _ 12 behind behind ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 cask cask NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 16 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 22 advmod _ _ 17 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 18 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 19 Mr. Mr. PROPN NNP Number=Sing 20 compound _ _ 20 Fox fox NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 22 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 23 in in 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 by by ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 arm arm NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 31 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **rush** *in a quote* | past | Mr. Fox *= fox* | | | | time | downstairs *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **hide** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | Mr. Fox *= fox* *not said here* | Mr. Fox *= fox* | | a cask | | | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent myself=Patient behind cask=Location | | 3 | **come** *in a quote* | past | you | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **drag** *in a quote* | gerund | you *not said here* | the young lady | | | | by the arm | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lady=Theme | 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 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/33/10/) - next →: [sentence 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/33/12/) - ↑ back to [Be Bold, Be Bold, But Not Too Bold.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/33/)