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title: When he drew it away and counted, there lay before him no fewer than… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: When he drew it away and counted, there lay before him no fewer than seven, dead and with legs stretched out. Who acts: tailor. A sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Valiant Little Tailor, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Valiant Little Tailor, sentence 15

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When he drew it away and counted, there lay before him no fewer than seven, dead and with legs stretched out.

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**Who acts:** tailor · **What happens:** draw away, count, lay, stretch out · **To what, where:** patience, legs

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This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Valiant Little Tailor. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (tailor), 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:pg2591:19:15
# text = When he drew it away and counted, there lay before him no fewer than seven, dead and with legs stretched out.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	3	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	drew	draw	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	away	away	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	counted	count	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	10	advmod	_	_
10	lay	lay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
11	before	before	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obl	_	_
13	no	no	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	fewer	few	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	10	advcl	_	_
15	than	than	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	seven	seven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	parataxis	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
20	with	with	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
21	legs	leg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nsubj:pass	_	_
22	stretched	stretch	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	conj	_	_
23	out	out	ADP	RP	_	22	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **draw away** | past | tailor | patience |  |  |  | away *property* | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 2 | **count** | participle | tailor *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus |
| 3 | **lay** | infinitive | tailor *not said here* |  |  | there | before tailor |  | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent before he=Destination |
| 4 | **stretch out** | participle · passive |  | legs |  |  |  |  | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient |

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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:** «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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