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title: So he stretched out his bad foot which the youth examined with great… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: So he stretched out his bad foot which the youth examined with great attention, and then gently laid on the plaster. Who acts: Balancin, bad foot. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 38, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 38, sentence 10

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So he stretched out his bad foot which the youth examined with great attention, and then gently laid on the plaster.

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**Who acts:** Balancin, bad foot · **What happens:** stretch out, youth, examine, lay · **To what, where:** bad foot, youth, plaster

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This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 38. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Balancin, bad foot), 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:pg3027:38:10
# text = So he stretched out his bad foot which the youth examined with great attention, and then gently laid on the plaster.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	stretched	stretch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	out	out	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
6	bad	bad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	foot	foot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
8	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	10	nsubj	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	youth	youth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
11	examined	examine	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	acl	_	_
12	with	with	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	attention	attention	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
17	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	19	advmod	_	_
18	gently	gently	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	laid	lay	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
20	on	on	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	plaster	plaster	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stretch out** | past | Balancin | Balancin's bad foot and the youth |  |  |  |  | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent foot=Patient |
| 2 | **youth** |  | Balancin's bad foot and the youth |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **examine** | participle |  | the youth *not said here* |  |  |  | with great attention | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **lay** | participle | Balancin *not said here* |  |  | the plaster | then | gently *property* | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent on plaster=Destination |

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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:** «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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