--- title: He soon began to chop down a tree; but he had not worked long before… — Grimm's Fairy Stories · tree and pragmatics description: He soon began to chop down a tree; but he had not worked long before he missed his stroke, and cut himself, and was obliged to go home and have the wound bound up. Who acts: man. A sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, The Golden Goose, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ev --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11027/15/7/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Grimm's Fairy Stories](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11027/) / [The Golden Goose](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11027/15/) / 7 # Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Golden Goose, sentence 7 He soon began to chop down a tree; but he had not worked long before he missed his stroke, and cut himself, and was obliged to go home and have the wound bound up. **Who acts:** man · **What happens:** begin, chop down, not work, miss, cut, oblige · **To what, where:** tree, stroke, man, wound This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, The Golden Goose. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg11027:15:7 # text = He soon began to chop down a tree; but he had not worked long before he missed his stroke, and cut himself, and was obliged to go home and have the wound bound up. 1 He he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 2 soon soon ADV RB Degree=Pos 3 advmod _ _ 3 began begin VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 to to PART TO _ 5 mark _ _ 5 chop chop VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 xcomp _ _ 6 down down ADP RP _ 5 compound:prt _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 tree tree NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 9 ; ; PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 10 but but CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 11 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 12 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 14 aux _ _ 13 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 14 advmod _ _ 14 worked work VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 3 conj _ _ 15 long long ADV RB Degree=Pos 14 advmod _ _ 16 before before SCONJ IN _ 18 mark _ _ 17 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 18 missed miss VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 14 advcl _ _ 19 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 20 nmod:poss _ _ 20 stroke stroke NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 23 cut cut VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 24 himself himself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 23 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 25 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 27 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 28 aux:pass _ _ 28 obliged oblige VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 parataxis _ _ 29 to to PART TO _ 30 mark _ _ 30 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 28 xcomp _ _ 31 home home ADV RB _ 30 advmod _ _ 32 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 33 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 conj _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 wound wound NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obj _ _ 36 bound bind VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 35 acl _ _ 37 up up ADP RP _ 36 compound:prt _ SpaceAfter=No 38 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **begin** | past | man | | | | | soon *property* | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 2 | **chop down** | to-infinitive | man *not said here* | a tree | | | | | vn carve-21.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tree=Patient | | 3 | **not** **work** | past · perfect | man | | | | | long *property* | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **miss** | past | man | man's stroke | | | | | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer stroke=Stimulus | | 5 | **cut** | past | | man | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset himself=Product | | 6 | **oblige** | past · passive | | | | | | | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: clause=Result | | 7 | **go** | to-infinitive | | | | | | home *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 8 | **have** | present | | the wound | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wound=Patient | | 9 | **bind up** | participle | | the wound *not said here* | | | | | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | | 10 | **stroke** | | man | | | | | | nom stroke «act transitive»: poss=agent | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11027/15/6/) - next →: [sentence 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11027/15/8/) - ↑ back to [The Golden Goose](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11027/15/)