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title: Then the youth galloped thither with his iron soldiers, broke like a… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Then the youth galloped thither with his iron soldiers, broke like a hurricane over the enemy, and beat down all who opposed him. Who acts: youth. A sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Iron Hans, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Grimms' Fairy Tales, Iron Hans, sentence 100

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Then the youth galloped thither with his iron soldiers, broke like a hurricane over the enemy, and beat down all who opposed him.

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**Who acts:** youth · **What happens:** gallop, break, beat down, oppose · **To what, where:** enemy, all, youth

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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.

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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:pg2591:59:100
# text = Then the youth galloped thither with his iron soldiers, broke like a hurricane over the enemy, and beat down all who opposed him.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	youth	youth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	galloped	gallop	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	thither	thither	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
8	iron	iron	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	soldiers	soldier	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	broke	break	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
12	like	like	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	hurricane	hurricane	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
15	over	over	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	enemy	enemy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	beat	beat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
21	down	down	ADP	RP	_	20	compound:prt	_	_
22	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	20	obj	_	_
23	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	24	nsubj	_	_
24	opposed	oppose	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	acl:relcl	_	_
25	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **gallop** | past | the youth |  |  |  | then | with youth's iron soldiers; thither *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **break** | past | the youth *not said here* |  |  | the enemy |  | like a hurricane | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over enemy=Location |
| 3 | **beat down** | infinitive | the youth *not said here* | all |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location all=Theme |
| 4 | **oppose** | past |  | youth |  |  |  |  | vn amalgamate-22.2-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient |

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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:** «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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