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title: However, the fox bid him be of good cheer, and said, ‘I will help yo… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. A sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Fox and the Horse, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Fox and the Horse, sentence 6

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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.’

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

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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.

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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:pg2591:45:6
# text = 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.’
1	However	however	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	fox	fox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	bid	bid	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	_
7	be	be	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	xcomp	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	cheer	cheer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
17	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	help	help	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	ccomp	_	_
19	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	21	punct	_	_
21	lie	lie	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	conj	_	_
22	down	down	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
23	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	21	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
25	stretch	stretch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	conj	_	_
26	yourself	yourself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	25	obj	_	_
27	out	out	ADP	RP	_	25	compound:prt	_	_
28	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
29	stiff	stiff	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
32	pretend	pretend	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	conj	_	_
33	to	to	PART	TO	_	35	mark	_	_
34	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	35	cop	_	_
35	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	18	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | 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 |

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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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