--- title: One day the peasant was getting ready to go into the forest to cut w… — Grimm's Fairy Stories · tree and pragmatics description: One day the peasant was getting ready to go into the forest to cut wood, when he said as if to himself, "How I wish that there was any one who would bring the cart to me!" " Who acts: peasant, one. 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" **Who acts:** peasant, one · **What happens:** get, go, cut, say, wish, be · **To what, where:** forest, wood, cart, peasant · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, The Water of Life. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (peasant, one), 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:pg11027:17:83 # text = One day the peasant was getting ready to go into the forest to cut wood, when he said as if to himself, "How I wish that there was any one who would bring the cart to me!" " 1 One one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 2 nummod _ _ 2 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl:unmarked _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 peasant peasant NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 5 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 aux _ _ 6 getting get VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 7 ready ready ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 xcomp _ _ 8 to to PART TO _ 9 mark _ _ 9 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 xcomp _ _ 10 into into ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 forest forest NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 13 to to PART TO _ 14 mark _ _ 14 cut cut VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 advcl _ _ 15 wood wood NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 17 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 19 advmod _ _ 18 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 19 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 20 as as SCONJ IN _ 23 mark _ _ 21 if if SCONJ IN _ 23 mark _ _ 22 to to ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 23 himself himself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 19 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 24 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 25 " " PUNCT `` _ 28 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 26 How how ADV WRB PronType=Int 28 advmod _ _ 27 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 28 nsubj _ _ 28 wish wish VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 29 that that SCONJ IN _ 31 mark _ _ 30 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 31 expl _ _ 31 was be VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 28 ccomp _ _ 32 any any DET DT PronType=Ind 33 det _ _ 33 one one NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 nsubj _ _ 34 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 36 nsubj _ _ 35 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 36 aux _ _ 36 bring bring VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 33 acl:relcl _ _ 37 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 38 cart cart NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obj _ _ 39 to to ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 40 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 36 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 41 ! ! PUNCT . _ 36 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 42 " " PUNCT '' _ 36 punct _ _ 43 " " PUNCT '' _ 28 punct _ SpaceAfter=No ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **get** | past · progressive | the peasant | | | | day | ready *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer | | 2 | **go** | to-infinitive | the peasant *not said here* | | | the forest | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into forest=Initial\_Location | | 3 | **cut** | to-infinitive | the peasant *not said here* | wood | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset wood=Product | | 4 | **say** *speech: express* | past | peasant | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **wish** *in a quote* | present | peasant | | | | | | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | | 6 | **be** *in a quote* | past | any one | | | there | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 7 | **bring** *in a quote* | would | any one | the cart | peasant | | | | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent cart=Theme to i=Destination | 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 82](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11027/17/82/) - next →: [sentence 84](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11027/17/84/) - ↑ back to [The Water of Life](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11027/17/)