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title: Grethel took the bread in her apron, for Hansel's pocket was full of… — Grimm's Fairy Stories · tree and pragmatics
description: Grethel took the bread in her apron, for Hansel's pocket was full of pebbles; and so they all set out upon their way. Who acts: Grethel, pocket, pebbles. A sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Hansel and Grethel, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Grimm's Fairy Stories, Hansel and Grethel, sentence 19

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Grethel took the bread in her apron, for Hansel's pocket was full of pebbles; and so they all set out upon their way.

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**Who acts:** Grethel, pocket, pebbles · **What happens:** take, be, set out · **To what, where:** bread, apron

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This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Hansel and Grethel. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Grethel, pocket, pebbles), 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:pg11027:8:19
# text = Grethel took the bread in her apron, for Hansel's pocket was full of pebbles; and so they all set out upon their way.
1	Grethel	Grethel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	bread	bread	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	apron	apron	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
9	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
10	Hansel	Hansel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	's	's	PART	POS	_	10	case	_	_
12	pocket	pocket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
13	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
14	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	parataxis	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	pebbles	pebble	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	2	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
19	so	so	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
20	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
21	all	all	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	set	set	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
23	out	out	ADP	RP	_	22	compound:prt	_	_
24	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | past | Grethel | the bread |  | sun's apron |  |  | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent bread=Value in apron=Location |
| 2 | **is** | past | Hansel's pocket |  |  |  |  | of pebbles; full *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **set out** | past | pebbles *= pebble* |  |  |  |  | upon pebbles's way; all *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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:** «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.

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