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title: And, as you passed me, Mr. Fox, I thought I saw you try and get off… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: And, as you passed me, Mr. Fox, I thought I saw you try and get off her diamond ring, and when you could not, Mr. Fox, it seemed to me in my dream, that you out with your sword and hacked off the poor lady's hand to get the ring.” Who acts: you, I, it, my. A sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Jose
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# English Fairy Tales, Be Bold, Be Bold, But Not Too Bold., sentence 12

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And, as you passed me, Mr. Fox, I thought I saw you try and get off her diamond ring, and when you could not, Mr. Fox, it seemed to me in my dream, that you out with your sword and hacked off the poor lady's hand to get the ring.”

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**Who acts:** you, I, it, my · **What happens:** pass, think, see, try, get off, seem · **To what, where:** me, you, diamond ring, hand, ring · **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 (you, I, it, my), 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:pg7439:33:12
# text = And, as you passed me, Mr. Fox, I thought I saw you try and get off her diamond ring, and when you could not, Mr. Fox, it seemed to me in my dream, that you out with your sword and hacked off the poor lady's hand to get the ring.”
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
4	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	passed	pass	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	advcl	_	_
6	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	Fox	fox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
11	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	ccomp	_	_
15	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	14	obj	_	_
16	try	try	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	xcomp	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	conj	_	_
19	off	off	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
21	diamond	diamond	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	ring	ring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
25	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	27	advmod	_	_
26	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
27	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	34	aux	_	_
28	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	27	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
30	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	compound	_	_
31	Fox	fox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
33	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	nsubj	_	_
34	seemed	seem	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	ccomp	_	_
35	to	to	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	34	obl	_	_
37	in	in	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	39	nmod:poss	_	_
39	dream	dream	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	46	punct	_	_
41	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	46	nsubj	_	_
42	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	46	nsubj	_	_
43	out	out	ADP	RP	_	42	compound:prt	_	_
44	with	with	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
45	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	46	nmod:poss	_	_
46	sword	sword	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	appos	_	_
47	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	48	cc	_	_
48	hacked	hack	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	46	conj	_	_
49	off	off	ADP	IN	_	54	case	_	_
50	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	52	det	_	_
51	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	52	amod	_	_
52	lady	lady	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	54	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	's	's	PART	POS	_	52	case	_	_
54	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	obl	_	_
55	to	to	PART	TO	_	56	mark	_	_
56	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	48	advcl	_	_
57	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	58	det	_	_
58	ring	ring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	56	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
59	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	46	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
60	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	46	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pass** | past | you | me |  |  |  | Mr. Fox *obl* | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme i=Trajectory |
| 2 | **think** *speech: other* | past | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 3 | **see** | past | I | you |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **try** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 5 | **get off** | infinitive | you *not said here* | Fox's diamond ring |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer ring=Stimulus |
| 6 | **seem** | could | it |  | me |  |  | in my dream | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Theme in dream=Attribute |
| 7 | **hack off** | participle |  | the poor lady's hand |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Product |
| 8 | **get** | to-infinitive |  | the ring |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer ring=Stimulus |
| 9 | **dream** |  | my |  |  |  |  |  | nom dream «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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