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title: Instead of returning to the king, however, he conducted his troop by… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. 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 102

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Instead of returning to the king, however, he conducted his troop by byways back to the forest, and called forth Iron Hans.

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**Who acts:** youth · **What happens:** return, conduct, call · **To what, where:** troop · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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:pg2591:59:102
# text = Instead of returning to the king, however, he conducted his troop by byways back to the forest, and called forth Iron Hans.
1	Instead	instead	ADV	RB	ExtPos=SCONJ	3	mark	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	1	fixed	_	_
3	returning	return	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	advcl	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	however	however	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
10	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	conducted	conduct	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	troop	troop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	by	by	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	byways	byway	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	_
16	back	back	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
17	to	to	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	parataxis	_	_
23	forth	forth	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
24	Iron	Iron	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	Hans	Hans	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | 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 |

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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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