--- title: When they had gone a little distance, Hansel stood still, and peeped… — Grimm's Fairy Stories · tree and pragmatics description: When they had gone a little distance, Hansel stood still, and peeped back at the house; and this he repeated several times, till his father said, "Hansel, what are you peeping at, and why do you lag behind? Who acts: pebbles, Hansel, this, father. 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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 (pebbles, Hansel, this, father), 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:pg11027:8:20 # text = When they had gone a little distance, Hansel stood still, and peeped back at the house; and this he repeated several times, till his father said, "Hansel, what are you peeping at, and why do you lag behind? 1 When when ADV WRB PronType=Int 4 advmod _ _ 2 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 3 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 4 gone go VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 10 advcl _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 6 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 distance distance NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 9 Hansel Hansel PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ _ 10 stood stand VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 11 still still ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 14 peeped peep VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 conj _ _ 15 back back ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ _ 16 at at ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 house house NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 19 ; ; PUNCT : _ 23 punct _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 21 this this PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 23 nsubj _ _ 22 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ _ 23 repeated repeat VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 parataxis _ _ 24 several several ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 25 times time NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 obl:unmarked _ SpaceAfter=No 26 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 27 till till SCONJ IN _ 30 mark _ _ 28 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 29 nmod:poss _ _ 29 father father NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 nsubj _ _ 30 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 23 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 31 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 32 " " PUNCT `` _ 33 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 33 Hansel hansel VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 30 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 34 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 35 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 38 obj _ _ 36 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 38 aux _ _ 37 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 38 nsubj _ _ 38 peeping peep VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 33 advcl _ _ 39 at at ADP IN _ 38 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 40 , , PUNCT , _ 45 punct _ _ 41 and and CCONJ CC _ 45 cc _ _ 42 why why ADV WRB PronType=Int 45 advmod _ _ 43 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 45 aux _ _ 44 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 45 nsubj _ _ 45 lag lag VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 conj _ _ 46 behind behind ADV RB _ 45 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 47 ? ? PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **go** | past · perfect | pebbles *= pebble* | a little distance | | | | | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location distance=Theme | | 2 | **stand** | past | Hansel | | | | still | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **peep back** | past | Hansel *not said here* | | | | | at the house | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at house=Theme | | 4 | **repeat** | past | this | | | | time | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | | 5 | **say** *speech: ask* | past | Hansel's father | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 6 | **hansel** *in a quote* | infinitive | | | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **peep** *in a quote* | present · progressive | you | | | | | | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent what=Theme | | 8 | **lag behind** *in a quote* | present · do-support | you | | | | | behind *property* | 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 19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11027/8/19/) - next →: [sentence 21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11027/8/21/) - ↑ back to [Hansel and Grethel](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11027/8/)