Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Golden Goose, sentence 7
He soon began to chop down a tree; but he had not worked long before he missed his stroke, and cut himself, and was obliged to go home and have the wound bound up.
Who acts: man · What happens: begin, chop down, not work, miss, cut, oblige · To what, where: tree, stroke, man, wound
This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, The Golden Goose. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man), 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
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 began | nsubj |
| 2 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 3 began | advmod |
| 3 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 chop | mark |
| 5 | chop | chop | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 began | xcomp |
| 6 | down | down | ADP | _ | 5 chop | compound:prt |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 tree | det |
| 8 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 chop | obj |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 worked | punct |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 worked | cc |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 worked | nsubj |
| 12 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 worked | aux |
| 13 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 worked | advmod |
| 14 | worked | work | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 began | conj |
| 15 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 14 worked | advmod |
| 16 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 18 missed | mark |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 missed | nsubj |
| 18 | missed | miss | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 worked | advcl |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 stroke | nmod:poss |
| 20 | stroke | stroke | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 missed | obj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 cut | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 cut | cc |
| 23 | cut | cut | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 began | parataxis |
| 24 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 23 cut | obj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 obliged | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 obliged | cc |
| 27 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 obliged | aux:pass |
| 28 | obliged | oblige | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 began | parataxis |
| 29 | to | to | PART | _ | 30 go | mark |
| 30 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 28 obliged | xcomp |
| 31 | home | home | ADV | _ | 30 go | advmod |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 have | cc |
| 33 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 obliged | conj |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 wound | det |
| 35 | wound | wound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 have | obj |
| 36 | bound | bind | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 35 wound | acl |
| 37 | up | up | ADP | _ | 36 bound | compound:prt |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 began | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | begin | past | man | soon property | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | chop down | to-infinitive | man not said here | a tree | vn carve-21.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tree=Patient | ||||
| 3 | not work | past · perfect | man | long property | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | miss | past | man | man's stroke | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer stroke=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | cut | past | man | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset himself=Product | |||||
| 6 | oblige | past · passive | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: clause=Result | ||||||
| 7 | go | to-infinitive | home property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 8 | have | present | the wound | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wound=Patient | |||||
| 9 | bind up | participle | the wound not said here | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 10 | stroke | man | nom stroke «act transitive»: poss=agent |
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: «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Project Gutenberg book 11027 (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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