Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Golden Goose, sentence 6

But when he began to hew down a tree, it was not long before he made a false stroke, and the axe cut him in the arm, so that he had to go home and have it bound up.

Who acts: man, tree, axe · What happens: begin, hew down, not be, make, cut, have · To what, where: tree, false stroke, man, arm, axe

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» 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, tree, axe), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	4 began	cc
2	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 began	advmod
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 began	nsubj
4	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 hew	mark
6	hew	hew	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 began	xcomp
7	down	down	ADP	_	6 hew	compound:prt
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 tree	det
9	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 hew	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 long	punct
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 long	nsubj
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 long	cop
13	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 long	advmod
14	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 hew	advmod
15	before	before	SCONJ	_	17 made	mark
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 made	nsubj
17	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 long	advcl
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 stroke	det
19	false	false	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 stroke	amod
20	stroke	stroke	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 made	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 cut	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 cut	cc
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 axe	det
24	axe	axe	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 cut	nsubj
25	cut	cut	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 began	parataxis
26	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 cut	obj
27	in	in	ADP	_	29 arm	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 arm	det
29	arm	arm	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 cut	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 had	punct
31	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	34 had	mark
32	that	that	SCONJ	_	31 so	fixed
33	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 had	nsubj
34	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 cut	parataxis
35	to	to	PART	_	36 go	mark
36	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	34 had	xcomp
37	home	home	ADV	_	36 go	advmod
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 have	cc
39	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres Typo=Yes VerbForm=Fin	34 had	conj
40	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 have	obj
41	bound	bind	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	39 have	xcomp
42	up	up	ADP	_	41 bound	compound:prt
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	begin	past	man				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	hew down	to-infinitive	man not said here	a tree			vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tree=Patient
3	not is	past	tree			long property	tree rules
4	make	past	man	a false stroke			vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stroke=Product
5	cut	past	the axe	man	the arm		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material he=Product
6	have	past	man				tree rules
7	go	to-infinitive	man not said here			home property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	have	present	man not said here	axe			tree rules
9	bind up	participle	axe not said here				vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient

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.

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