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title: He took a rope and an axe with him, went forth into the forest, and… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: He took a rope and an axe with him, went forth into the forest, and again bade those who were sent with him to wait outside. Who acts: blow. A sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Valiant Little Tailor, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Valiant Little Tailor, sentence 118

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He took a rope and an axe with him, went forth into the forest, and again bade those who were sent with him to wait outside.

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**Who acts:** blow · **What happens:** take, go, send, wait · **To what, where:** rope, forest

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This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» 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 (blow), 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:pg2591:19:118
# text = He took a rope and an axe with him, went forth into the forest, and again bade those who were sent with him to wait outside.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	rope	rope	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
6	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	axe	axe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
8	with	with	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
12	forth	forth	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
13	into	into	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
18	again	again	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	bade	bade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
20	those	that	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	19	nmod	_	_
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	sent	send	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	20	acl:relcl	_	_
24	with	with	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	obl	_	_
26	to	to	PART	TO	_	27	mark	_	_
27	wait	wait	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	advcl	_	_
28	outside	outside	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | past | blow | a rope and a axe with unicorn |  |  |  | bade  those *obl* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rope=Theme |
| 2 | **go** | past | blow *not said here* |  |  | the forest |  | forth *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into forest=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **send** | past · passive |  |  |  |  |  | with blow | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 4 | **wait** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | outside *property* | vn exist-47.1 «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:** «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Project Gutenberg book 2591 (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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