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title: So he carried with him a rope and an axe and went off to the forest,… — Grimm's Fairy Stories · tree and pragmatics
description: So he carried with him a rope and an axe and went off to the forest, ordering those, who were told to accompany him, to wait on the outskirts. Who acts: Tailor. A sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, The Valiant Little Tailor, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every claus
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# Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Valiant Little Tailor, sentence 105

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So he carried with him a rope and an axe and went off to the forest, ordering those, who were told to accompany him, to wait on the outskirts.

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**Who acts:** Tailor · **What happens:** carry, go off, order, tell, accompany, wait · **To what, where:** rope, those, Tailor, outskirts · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, The Valiant Little Tailor. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Tailor), 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:pg11027:13:105
# text = So he carried with him a rope and an axe and went off to the forest, ordering those, who were told to accompany him, to wait on the outskirts.
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	carried	carry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	with	with	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obl	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	rope	rope	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	axe	axe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
13	off	off	ADP	RP	_	12	compound:prt	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	ordering	order	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	advcl	_	_
19	those	that	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	23	nsubj	_	_
22	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux:pass	_	_
23	told	tell	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	acl	_	_
24	to	to	PART	TO	_	25	mark	_	_
25	accompany	accompany	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	xcomp	_	_
26	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
28	to	to	PART	TO	_	29	mark	_	_
29	wait	wait	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	conj	_	_
30	on	on	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	outskirts	outskirt	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **carry** | past | Tailor | a rope and a axe |  |  |  | with BLOW | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rope=Theme |
| 2 | **go off** | past | Tailor *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to the forest | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **order** | gerund | Tailor *not said here* | those |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Theme |
| 4 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past · passive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 5 | **accompany** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive |  | Tailor |  |  |  |  | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
| 6 | **wait** | to-infinitive |  |  |  | the outskirts |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on outskirt=Location |

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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:** «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Project Gutenberg book 11027 (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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