--- title: He went down again, and as he knew what he had to do, he did it thor… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: He went down again, and as he knew what he had to do, he did it thoroughly, and brought a chest full of gold out with him. Who acts: youth. A sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Three Languages, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/41/26/) [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/) / [Grimms' Fairy Tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/) / [The Three Languages](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/41/) / 26 # Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Three Languages, sentence 26 He went down again, and as he knew what he had to do, he did it thoroughly, and brought a chest full of gold out with him. **Who acts:** youth · **What happens:** go down, know, have, do, bring · **To what, where:** castle, chest This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Three Languages. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (youth), 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:pg2591:41:26 # text = He went down again, and as he knew what he had to do, he did it thoroughly, and brought a chest full of gold out with him. 1 He he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 down down ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ 4 again again ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 7 as as SCONJ IN _ 9 mark _ _ 8 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _ 9 knew know VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 17 advcl _ _ 10 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 9 obj _ _ 11 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj _ _ 12 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 acl:relcl _ _ 13 to to PART TO _ 14 mark _ _ 14 do do VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 12 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 16 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 17 did do VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 18 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 obj _ _ 19 thoroughly thoroughly ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 22 brought bring VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 23 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 chest chest NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obj _ _ 25 full full ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 26 of of ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 27 gold gold NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obl _ _ 28 out out ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ _ 29 with with ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 30 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 31 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **go down** | past | youth | | | | again | down *property* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | | 2 | **know** | past | youth | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus | | 3 | **have** | past | youth | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **do** | to-infinitive | youth *not said here* | | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **do** | past | youth | castle | | | | thoroughly *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality | | 6 | **bring** | past | youth *not said here* | a chest | | | | with youth; out *property* | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent chest=Theme | 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 25](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/41/25/) - next →: [sentence 27](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/41/27/) - ↑ back to [The Three Languages](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/41/)