--- title: Hansel stooped down, and put as many into his pocket as it would hol… — Grimm's Fairy Stories · tree and pragmatics description: Hansel stooped down, and put as many into his pocket as it would hold; and then going back, he said to Grethel, "Be comforted, dear sister, and sleep in peace; God will not forsake us." Who acts: you, moon, Grethel, God. 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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 (you, moon, Grethel, God), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg11027:8:14 # text = Hansel stooped down, and put as many into his pocket as it would hold; and then going back, he said to Grethel, "Be comforted, dear sister, and sleep in peace; God will not forsake us." 1 Hansel hansel VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 stooped stoop VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 1 xcomp _ _ 3 down down ADP RP _ 2 compound:prt _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 5 and and CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ _ 6 put put VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 1 conj _ _ 7 as as ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ _ 8 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 obj _ _ 9 into into ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 11 nmod:poss _ _ 11 pocket pocket NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 12 as as SCONJ IN _ 15 mark _ _ 13 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 14 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 15 aux _ _ 15 hold hold VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 16 ; ; PUNCT : _ 19 punct _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 18 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 19 advmod _ _ 19 going go VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 1 advcl _ _ 20 back back ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 22 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ _ 23 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 1 parataxis _ _ 24 to to ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 Grethel Grethel PROPN NNP Number=Sing 23 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 26 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 27 " " PUNCT `` _ 29 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 28 Be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 29 aux:pass _ _ 29 comforted comfort VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 23 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 30 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 31 dear dear ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 amod _ _ 32 sister sister NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 33 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 34 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 35 sleep sleep VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|Typo=Yes|VerbForm=Fin 29 conj _ _ 36 in in ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 37 peace peace NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 38 ; ; PUNCT , _ 42 punct _ _ 39 God God PROPN NNP Number=Sing 42 nsubj _ _ 40 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 42 aux _ _ 41 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 42 advmod _ _ 42 forsake forsake VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 1 conj _ _ 43 us we PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 42 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 44 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 45 " " PUNCT '' _ 1 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **hansel** | imperative | you *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **stoop down** | participle | you *not said here* | | | | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **put** | infinitive | you *not said here* | many | | Grethel's pocket | | | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent many=Goal | | 4 | **hold** | would | moon | | | | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **go back** | gerund | you *not said here* | | | | then | | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient | | 6 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Grethel | | Grethel | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to grethel=Recipient | | 7 | **comfort** *in a quote* | infinitive · passive | Grethel *not said here* | dear sister | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle» | | 8 | **sleep** *in a quote* | present | Grethel *not said here* | | | peace | | | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in peace=Location | | 9 | **not** **forsake** *in a quote* | future | God | us | | | | | tree rules | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11027/8/13/) - next →: [sentence 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11027/8/15/) - ↑ back to [Hansel and Grethel](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11027/8/)