---
title: Thus our woodcutter did not change his state, did not become a poten… — The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault · tree and pragmatics
description: Thus our woodcutter did not change his state, did not become a potentate, nor fill his purse with golden crowns. Who acts: woodcutter. A sentence of «The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by Charles Perrault, Towards Her"], with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29021/15/26/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[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/) / [The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29021/) / [Towards Her"\]](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29021/15/) / 26

# The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Towards Her"\], sentence 26

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Thus our woodcutter did not change his state, did not become a potentate, nor fill his purse with golden crowns.

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** woodcutter · **What happens:** not change, not become, fill · **To what, where:** state, potentate, purse

<!-- .vabout -->
This is a sentence of «The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by Charles Perrault, Towards Her"\]. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (woodcutter), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

<!-- .note-en -->
**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:pg29021:15:26
# text = Thus our woodcutter did not change his state, did not become a potentate, nor fill his purse with golden crowns.
1	Thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
2	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	woodcutter	woodcutter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
6	change	change	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	state	state	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
11	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	12	advmod	_	_
12	become	become	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	advcl	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	potentate	potentate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	17	cc	_	_
17	fill	fill	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	_
18	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	purse	purse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
20	with	with	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	crowns	crown	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **change** | past · do-support | our woodcutter | woodcutter's state |  |  |  | thus *property* | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent state=Patient |
| 2 | **not** **become** | past · do-support | our woodcutter *not said here* | a potentate |  |  |  |  | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **fill** | infinitive | our woodcutter *not said here* | woodcutter's purse |  |  |  | with golden crowns | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent purse=Patient with crown=Instrument |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**Text:** «The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by Charles Perrault, Project Gutenberg book 29021 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [sentence 25](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29021/15/25/)
- next →: [sentence 27](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29021/15/27/)
- ↑ back to [Towards Her"\]](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29021/15/)