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title: Then he led him by dark passages to a smith’s forge, took an axe, an… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Then he led him by dark passages to a smith’s forge, took an axe, and with one blow struck an anvil into the ground. Who acts: man, one blow. A sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Story of the Youth Who Went Forth to Learn What Fear Was, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics 
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# Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Story of the Youth Who Went Forth to Learn What Fear Was, sentence 188

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Then he led him by dark passages to a smith’s forge, took an axe, and with one blow struck an anvil into the ground.

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**Who acts:** man, one blow · **What happens:** lead, take, strike · **To what, where:** youth, axe, anvil, ground

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This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Story of the Youth Who Went Forth to Learn What Fear Was. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, one 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:pg2591:57:188
# text = Then he led him by dark passages to a smith’s forge, took an axe, and with one blow struck an anvil into the ground.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	led	lead	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	by	by	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	dark	dark	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	passages	passage	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	smith	smith	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	’s	's	PART	POS	_	10	case	_	_
12	forge	forge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
15	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	axe	axe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
19	with	with	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	21	nummod	_	_
21	blow	blow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
22	struck	strike	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
23	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	anvil	anvil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
25	into	into	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lead** | past | man | youth |  |  | then | by dark passages; to a smith's forge | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme by passage=Destination |
| 2 | **take** | past | man *not said here* | a axe |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent axe=Theme |
| 3 | **strike** | past | one blow | a anvil |  |  |  | into the ground *result* | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent anvil=Patient into ground=Result |

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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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