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title: When he came to the outskirts, he called ‘Iron Hans’ three times so… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: When he came to the outskirts, he called ‘Iron Hans’ three times so loudly that it echoed through the trees. Who acts: horse, stable. 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 94

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When he came to the outskirts, he called ‘Iron Hans’ three times so loudly that it echoed through the trees.

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**Who acts:** horse, stable · **What happens:** come, call, echo · **To what, where:** outskirts, Iron, trees · **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 (horse, stable), 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:pg2591:59:94
# text = When he came to the outskirts, he called ‘Iron Hans’ three times so loudly that it echoed through the trees.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	3	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	advcl	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	outskirts	outskirt	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
8	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	called	call	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	Iron	Iron	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	Hans	Hans	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	’	's	PART	POS	_	11	case	_	_
14	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	15	nummod	_	_
15	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl:unmarked	_	_
16	so	so	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	loudly	loudly	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
18	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
19	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	echoed	echo	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	advcl	_	_
21	through	through	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | horse |  |  | the outskirts |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to outskirt=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **call** | past | horse |  | Iron |  | time | loudly *property* | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent iron=Recipient |
| 3 | **echo** | past | stable |  |  | the trees |  |  | vn sound\_existence-47.4 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through tree=Location |

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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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