The Red Fairy Book, The Golden Goose, sentence 6

There he began to cut down a tree, but before long he made a false stroke with his axe, and cut his own arm so badly that he was obliged to go home and have it bound up.

Who acts: youngest, arm · What happens: begin, cut down, make, cut, oblige, go · To what, where: tree, false stroke, own arm, youngest, arm

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, 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 (youngest, arm), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	3 began	expl
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 began	nsubj
3	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 cut	mark
5	cut	cut	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 began	xcomp
6	down	down	ADP	_	5 cut	compound:prt
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 tree	det
8	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 cut	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 made	punct
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	14 made	cc
11	before	before	ADP	_	12 long	case
12	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	14 made	obl
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 made	nsubj
14	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 began	conj
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 stroke	det
16	false	false	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 stroke	amod
17	stroke	stroke	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 made	obj
18	with	with	ADP	_	20 axe	case
19	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 axe	nmod:poss
20	axe	axe	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 stroke	nmod
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	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 arm	nmod:poss
25	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 arm	amod
26	arm	arm	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 cut	obj
27	so	so	ADV	_	28 badly	advmod
28	badly	badly	ADV	Degree=Pos	23 cut	advmod
29	that	that	SCONJ	_	32 obliged	mark
30	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 obliged	nsubj
31	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 obliged	aux:pass
32	obliged	oblige	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 cut	advcl
33	to	to	PART	_	34 go	mark
34	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 obliged	xcomp
35	home	home	ADV	_	34 go	advmod
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 have	cc
37	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres Typo=Yes VerbForm=Fin	3 began	conj
38	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 have	obj
39	bound	bind	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	37 have	xcomp
40	up	up	ADP	_	39 bound	compound:prt
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	begin	past	youngest = young		there		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	cut down	to-infinitive	youngest = young not said here	a tree			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset tree=Product
3	make	past	youngest = young	a false stroke		with youngest's axe	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stroke=Product
4	cut	past		youngest's own arm		badly property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset arm=Product
5	oblige	past · passive		youngest = young			vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: subject=Patient clause=Result
6	go	to-infinitive				home property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	have	present	youngest = young not said here	arm			tree rules
8	bind up	participle	arm 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: «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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