Grimms' Fairy Tales, Iron Hans, sentence 102
Instead of returning to the king, however, he conducted his troop by byways back to the forest, and called forth Iron Hans.
Who acts: youth · What happens: return, conduct, call · To what, where: troop · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Iron Hans. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (youth), 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 | Instead | instead | ADV | ExtPos=SCONJ | 3 returning | mark |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 1 Instead | fixed |
| 3 | returning | return | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 conducted | advcl |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 king | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 king | det |
| 6 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 returning | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 however | punct |
| 8 | however | however | ADV | _ | 3 returning | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 returning | punct |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 conducted | nsubj |
| 11 | conducted | conduct | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 troop | nmod:poss |
| 13 | troop | troop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 conducted | obj |
| 14 | by | by | ADP | _ | 15 byways | case |
| 15 | byways | byway | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 conducted | obl |
| 16 | back | back | ADV | _ | 19 forest | advmod |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 forest | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 forest | det |
| 19 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 conducted | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 called | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 called | cc |
| 22 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 conducted | parataxis |
| 23 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 22 called | advmod |
| 24 | Iron | Iron | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 Hans | compound |
| 25 | Hans | Hans | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 called | xcomp |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 conducted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | return | gerund | youth not said here | to the king result; however property | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to king=Result | ||||
| 2 | conduct | past | youth | youth's troop | by byways; to the forest | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent troop=Theme by byway=Destination | |||
| 3 | call | participle | forth property | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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: «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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