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title: This advice pleased the lion, so he laid himself down quietly for th… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: This advice pleased the lion, so he laid himself down quietly for the fox to make him fast to the horse. Who acts: lion. 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 9

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This advice pleased the lion, so he laid himself down quietly for the fox to make him fast to the horse.

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**Who acts:** lion · **What happens:** lay down, make · **To what, where:** lion

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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 (lion), 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:pg2591:45:9
# text = This advice pleased the lion, so he laid himself down quietly for the fox to make him fast to the horse.
1	This	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	det	_	_
2	advice	advice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	pleased	pleased	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	lion	lion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	so	so	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
8	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	laid	lay	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
10	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	9	obj	_	_
11	down	down	ADP	RP	_	9	compound:prt	_	_
12	quietly	quietly	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
13	for	for	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	fox	fox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	advcl	_	_
18	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	obj	_	_
19	fast	fast	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	17	advmod	_	_
20	to	to	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lay down** | past | lion | lion |  |  |  | for the fox; quietly *property* | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent himself=Result for fox=Beneficiary |
| 2 | **make** | to-infinitive | lion *not said here* | lion |  |  |  | fast *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset he=Product |

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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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