--- title: A long while after, he went to walk one day in the wood, and the old… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: A long while after, he went to walk one day in the wood, and the old fox met him, and besought him with tears in his eyes to kill him, and cut off his head and feet. Who acts: horse, old fox. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (horse, old fox), 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:pg2591:2:77 # text = A long while after, he went to walk one day in the wood, and the old fox met him, and besought him with tears in his eyes to kill him, and cut off his head and feet. 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 while while NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl:unmarked _ _ 4 after after ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 6 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 7 nsubj _ _ 7 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 to to PART TO _ 9 mark _ _ 9 walk walk VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 xcomp _ _ 10 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 11 nummod _ _ 11 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl:unmarked _ _ 12 in in ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 wood wood NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 18 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 19 fox fox NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nsubj _ _ 20 met meet VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 21 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 24 besought beseech VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 25 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 obj _ _ 26 with with ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 27 tears tear NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 obl _ _ 28 in in ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 29 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 30 nmod:poss _ _ 30 eyes eye NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 obl _ _ 31 to to PART TO _ 32 mark _ _ 32 kill kill VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 24 advcl _ _ 33 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 32 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 34 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 35 and and CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 36 cut cut VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 7 parataxis _ _ 37 off off ADP RP _ 36 compound:prt _ _ 38 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 39 nmod:poss _ _ 39 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obj _ _ 40 and and CCONJ CC _ 41 cc _ _ 41 feet foot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 39 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 42 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **go** | past | horse | | | | while | | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **walk** | to-infinitive | horse *not said here* | | | the wood | day | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in wood=Trajectory | | 3 | **meet** | past | the old fox | horse | | | | | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Co-Agent | | 4 | **beseech** | past | horse *not said here* | horse | | horse's eyes | | with tears | tree rules | | 5 | **kill** | to-infinitive | horse *not said here* | horse | | | | | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | | 6 | **cut off** | participle | | horse's head and feet | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector head=Eventuality | 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:** «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. - ← previous: [sentence 76](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/2/76/) - next →: [sentence 78](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/2/78/) - ↑ back to [The Golden Bird](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/2/)