Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Fox and the Horse, sentence 6

However, the fox bid him be of good cheer, and said, ‘I will help you; lie down there, stretch yourself out quite stiff, and pretend to be dead.’

Who acts: fox, I · What happens: bid, be, say, help, lie down, stretch out · To what, where: horse, you, yourself · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Fox and the Horse. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fox, I), 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	However	however	ADV	_	5 bid	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 However	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 fox	det
4	fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 bid	nsubj
5	bid	bid	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 bid	obj
7	be	be	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 bid	xcomp
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 cheer	case
9	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 cheer	amod
10	cheer	cheer	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 be	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 said	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 said	cc
13	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 bid	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 help	punct
15	‘	'	PUNCT	_	18 help	punct
16	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 help	nsubj
17	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 help	aux
18	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 said	ccomp
19	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	18 help	obj
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 lie	punct
21	lie	lie	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 help	conj
22	down	down	ADV	_	21 lie	advmod
23	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	21 lie	advmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 stretch	punct
25	stretch	stretch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 lie	conj
26	yourself	yourself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	25 stretch	obj
27	out	out	ADP	_	25 stretch	compound:prt
28	quite	quite	ADV	_	29 stiff	advmod
29	stiff	stiff	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 stretch	advcl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 pretend	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 pretend	cc
32	pretend	pretend	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 lie	conj
33	to	to	PART	_	35 dead	mark
34	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	35 dead	cop
35	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 pretend	xcomp
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	18 help	punct
37	’	'	PUNCT	_	18 help	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	bid	past	the fox	horse			however property	tree rules
2	be	infinitive	the fox not said here				of good cheer	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	say speech: assert	past	the fox not said here					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	help	future	I		you			vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Beneficiary
5	lie down	infinitive	I not said here			there	down property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	stretch out	infinitive	I not said here	yourself				vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent yourself=Patient
7	pretend	infinitive	I not said here					tree rules
8	is	to-infinitive	I not said here				dead property	tree rules

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: «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Project Gutenberg book 2591 (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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