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title: Therefore, finding an old iron ring belonging to some harness, they… — Grimm's Fairy Stories · tree and pragmatics
description: Therefore, finding an old iron ring belonging to some harness, they took that to the King. Who acts: brothers, old iron ring. A sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Dummling and the Three Feathers, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Grimm's Fairy Stories, Dummling and the Three Feathers, sentence 32

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Therefore, finding an old iron ring belonging to some harness, they took that to the King.

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**Who acts:** brothers, old iron ring · **What happens:** find, belong, take · **To what, where:** old iron ring, that, King

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This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Dummling and the Three Feathers. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (brothers, old iron ring), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg11027:10:32
# text = Therefore, finding an old iron ring belonging to some harness, they took that to the King.
1	Therefore	therefore	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	finding	find	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	advcl	_	_
4	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
5	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
6	iron	iron	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	ring	ring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
8	belonging	belong	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	acl	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	11	det	_	_
11	harness	harness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
13	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
15	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	14	obj	_	_
16	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **find** | gerund | brothers *= brother* *not said here* | a old iron ring |  |  |  | therefore *property* | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ring=Topic |
| 2 | **belong** | gerund | a old iron ring *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to some harness | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **take** | past | brothers *= brother* | that | the King |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent that=Theme to king=Destination |

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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.

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**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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