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

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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. '

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

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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.

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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:pg3027:4:22
# text = 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. '
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
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	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	3	obj	_	_
5	out	out	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
6	on	on	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	pretended	pretend	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	fall	fall	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	xcomp	_	_
14	fast	fast	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	13	advmod	_	_
15	asleep	asleep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
17	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	reality	reality	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
22	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
23	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
24	only	only	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
25	waiting	wait	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	advcl	_	_
26	till	till	SCONJ	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
27	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
28	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	cop	_	_
29	safe	safe	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	advcl	_	_
30	to	to	PART	TO	_	31	mark	_	_
31	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	csubj	_	_
32	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	34	det:predet	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	meat	meat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obj	_	_
35	for	for	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	31	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
38	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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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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