--- title: In Hansel and Gretel, an old fairy tale collected by the Brothers Gr… — Reading a story: characters, plot and setting · tree and pragmatics description: In Hansel and Gretel, an old fairy tale collected by the Brothers Grimm, Hansel drops breadcrumbs to find the way home, but the birds eat them. Who acts: Hansel, birds. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Hansel, birds), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:english:022-reading-a-story-characters-plot-and-setting.lesson:5 # text = In Hansel and Gretel, an old fairy tale collected by the Brothers Grimm, Hansel drops breadcrumbs to find the way home, but the birds eat them. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = english # lesson = 022-reading-a-story-characters-plot-and-setting.lesson # annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R1-cc-next ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 In in ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 Hansel Hansel PROPN NNP Number=Sing 17 obl _ _ 3 and and CCONJ CC _ 4 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=2:cc 4 Gretel Gretel PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 conj _ _ 5 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=9:punct 6 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 7 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 8 fairy fairy NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 compound _ _ 9 tale tale NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 appos _ _ 10 collected collect VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 9 acl _ _ 11 by by ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 Brothers Brother PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 10 obl:agent _ _ 14 Grimm Grimm PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 compound _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 16 Hansel Hansel PROPN NNP Number=Sing 17 nsubj _ _ 17 drops drop VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 18 breadcrumbs breadcrumb NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 obj _ _ 19 to to PART TO _ 20 mark _ _ 20 find find VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 17 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=17:xcomp 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obj _ _ 23 home home ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 25 but but CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 birds bird NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 nsubj _ _ 28 eat eat VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 conj _ _ 29 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 obj _ _ 30 . . PUNCT . _ 17 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **collect** | participle | | a old fairy tale *not said here* | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 2 | **drop** | present | Hansel | breadcrumbs | | Hansel and Gretel | | | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent breadcrumb=Theme in hansel=Destination | | 3 | **find** | to-infinitive | Hansel *not said here* | the way | | | | home *property* | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Topic | | 4 | **eat** | present | the birds | breadcrumbs *= breadcrumb* | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient | 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. **Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)**, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, `mova-school-agreed-en.conllu`) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:english:022-reading-a-story-characters-plot-and-setting.lesson:5`. **The tree:** Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R1-cc-next ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1. **The frames** are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (`prag`) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence. 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