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title: He accordingly did so, and they both stretched their weary limbs on… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: He accordingly did so, and they both stretched their weary limbs on the door, and fell fast asleep. Who acts: love, Mr.. A sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Mr. Vinegar, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# English Fairy Tales, Mr. Vinegar, sentence 9

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He accordingly did so, and they both stretched their weary limbs on the door, and fell fast asleep.

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**Who acts:** love, Mr. · **What happens:** do, stretch, fall · **To what, where:** weary limbs, door

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This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Mr. Vinegar. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (love, Mr.), 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:pg7439:11:9
# text = He accordingly did so, and they both stretched their weary limbs on the door, and fell fast asleep.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	accordingly	accordingly	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	so	so	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
7	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
8	both	both	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	stretched	stretch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
10	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
11	weary	weary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	limbs	limb	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	_
13	on	on	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
19	fast	fast	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	18	advmod	_	_
20	asleep	asleep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past | love |  |  |  |  | accordingly *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **stretch** | past | Mr. | Mr.'s weary limbs |  | the door |  | both *property* | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent limb=Patient |
| 3 | **fall** | past | Mr. *not said here* |  |  |  |  | asleep, fast *property* | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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:** «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7439 (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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