Grimm's Fairy Stories, Oh, If I Could But Shiver!, sentence 155

Then taking up an axe he cut through the anvil at one blow down to the ground. "

Who acts: man · What happens: take up, cut · To what, where: axe, anvil

This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Oh, If I Could But Shiver!. 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 taking	advmod
2	taking	take	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
3	up	up	ADP	_	2 taking	compound:prt
4	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 axe	det
5	axe	axe	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 taking	obj
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 cut	nsubj
7	cut	cut	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 axe	acl:relcl
8	through	through	ADP	_	10 anvil	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 anvil	det
10	anvil	anvil	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 taking	obl
11	at	at	ADP	_	13 blow	case
12	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 blow	nummod
13	blow	blow	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 taking	obl
14	down	down	ADV	_	2 taking	advmod
15	to	to	ADP	_	17 ground	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 ground	det
17	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 down	obl
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 taking	punct
19	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 taking	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take up	gerund		a axe		the anvil	then	at one blow; down property	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent axe=Theme at blow=Asset
2	cut	past	man	a axe not said here					vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent axe=Product

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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