Grimms' Fairy Tales, First Story, sentence 2

He stretched himself out under the bench, did not move a limb, and behaved as if he were stone dead.

Who acts: fox · What happens: stretch out, not move, behave, be · To what, where: fox, bench, limb

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, First Story. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fox), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 stretched	nsubj
2	stretched	stretch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	2 stretched	obj
4	out	out	ADP	_	2 stretched	compound:prt
5	under	under	ADP	_	7 bench	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 bench	det
7	bench	bench	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 stretched	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 move	punct
9	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 move	aux
10	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 move	advmod
11	move	move	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 stretched	parataxis
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 limb	det
13	limb	limb	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 move	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 behaved	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 behaved	cc
16	behaved	behave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 move	parataxis
17	as	as	SCONJ	_	22 dead	mark
18	if	if	SCONJ	_	22 dead	mark
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 dead	nsubj
20	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 dead	cop
21	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 dead	compound
22	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 behaved	advcl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 stretched	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	stretch out	past	fox	fox	the bench		vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent himself=Patient
2	not move	past · do-support		a limb			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent limb=Theme
3	behave	participle					vn masquerade-29.6-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent
4	is	past	fox			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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