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title: “Mr. Fox” is clearly a variant of the theme of “The Robber Bridegroo… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: “Mr. Fox” is clearly a variant of the theme of “The Robber Bridegroom” (Grimm, No. 40, Mrs. Hunt's translation, i. 389, 395; and Cosquin, i. 180-1). Who acts: Mr. Fox, Mrs. Hunt. A sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XXVI. Mr. Fox., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ever
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# English Fairy Tales, XXVI. Mr. Fox., sentence 6

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“Mr. Fox” is clearly a variant of the theme of “The Robber Bridegroom” (Grimm, No. 40, Mrs. Hunt's translation, i. 389, 395; and Cosquin, i. 180-1).

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**Who acts:** Mr. Fox, Mrs. Hunt · **What happens:** be, translate · **To what, where:** variant

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This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XXVI. Mr. Fox.. 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, Mrs. Hunt), 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:pg7439:76:6
# text = “Mr. Fox” is clearly a variant of the theme of “The Robber Bridegroom” (Grimm, No. 40, Mrs. Hunt's translation, i. 389, 395; and Cosquin, i. 180-1).
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	Fox	fox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
6	clearly	clearly	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	variant	variant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	theme	theme	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
13	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	Robber	Robber	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	Bridegroom	Bridegroom	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	16	punct	_	_
18	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	Grimm	Grimm	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	No.	No.	PROPN	NNP	Abbr=Yes|Number=Sing	19	conj	_	_
22	40	40	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	21	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
24	Mrs.	Mrs.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	Hunt	Hunt	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	's	's	PART	POS	_	25	case	_	_
27	translation	translation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
29	i.	i.	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	30	nsubj	_	_
30	389	389	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	19	list	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
32	395	395	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	30	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	35	punct	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
35	Cosquin	Cosquin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
37	i.	i.	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	38	nsubj	_	_
38	180-1	180-1	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	35	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	38	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Mr. Fox | a variant |  |  |  | of the theme of the Robber Bridegroom and Grimm and No.; Cosquin *obl*; clearly *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **translate** |  | Mrs. Hunt |  |  |  |  |  | nom translation «communication intransitive»: 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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