The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 4, sentence 22

And he stretched himself out on the ground, and pretended to fall fast asleep, but, in reality, he was only waiting till it was safe to take all the meat for himself. '

Who acts: Gudu, reality, it · What happens: stretch out, pretend, fall, wait, be, take · To what, where: Gudu, ground, meat

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Gudu, reality, it), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	3 stretched	cc
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 stretched	nsubj
3	stretched	stretch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	3 stretched	obj
5	out	out	ADP	_	3 stretched	compound:prt
6	on	on	ADP	_	8 ground	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 ground	det
8	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 stretched	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 pretended	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 pretended	cc
11	pretended	pretend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 stretched	conj
12	to	to	PART	_	13 fall	mark
13	fall	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 pretended	xcomp
14	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	13 fall	advmod
15	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 fall	xcomp
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 waiting	punct
17	but	but	CCONJ	_	25 waiting	cc
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 reality	punct
19	in	in	ADP	_	20 reality	case
20	reality	reality	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 waiting	nsubj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 reality	punct
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 waiting	nsubj
23	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 waiting	aux
24	only	only	ADV	_	25 waiting	advmod
25	waiting	wait	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 pretended	advcl
26	till	till	SCONJ	_	29 safe	mark
27	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 safe	nsubj
28	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 safe	cop
29	safe	safe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 waiting	advcl
30	to	to	PART	_	31 take	mark
31	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 safe	csubj
32	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	34 meat	det:predet
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 meat	det
34	meat	meat	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 take	obj
35	for	for	ADP	_	36 himself	case
36	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	31 take	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 stretched	punct
38	'	'	PUNCT	_	3 stretched	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	stretch out	past	Gudu	Gudu	the ground		vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent himself=Patient
2	pretend	past	Gudu not said here				tree rules
3	fall	to-infinitive	Gudu not said here			asleep, fast property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	wait	past · progressive	reality				vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	is	past	it			safe property	tree rules
6	take	to-infinitive		all meat		for Gudu	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent meat=Theme for himself=Beneficiary

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: «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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