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title: Then they set fire to them; and as the flame burnt up high, the wife… — Grimm's Fairy Stories · tree and pragmatics
description: Then they set fire to them; and as the flame burnt up high, the wife said, "Now, you children, lie down near the fire, and rest yourselves, while we go into the forest and chop wood; when we are ready, I will come and call you." Who acts: twigs, wife, we. A sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jac
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# Grimm's Fairy Stories, Hansel and Grethel, sentence 27

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Then they set fire to them; and as the flame burnt up high, the wife said, "Now, you children, lie down near the fire, and rest yourselves, while we go into the forest and chop wood; when we are ready, I will come and call you."

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**Who acts:** twigs, wife, we · **What happens:** set, burnt up, say, lie down, rest, go · **To what, where:** fire, pebbles, flame, yourselves, forest, you · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (twigs, wife, we), 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:pg11027:8:27
# text = Then they set fire to them; and as the flame burnt up high, the wife said, "Now, you children, lie down near the fire, and rest yourselves, while we go into the forest and chop wood; when we are ready, I will come and call you."
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	set	set	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
9	as	as	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	flame	flame	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
12	burnt	burnt	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	acl	_	_
13	up	up	ADP	RP	_	12	compound:prt	_	_
14	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
18	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	18	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
23	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	18	ccomp	_	_
24	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
26	lie	lie	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	ccomp	_	_
27	down	down	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
28	near	near	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
33	rest	rest	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	26	parataxis	_	_
34	yourselves	yourselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	33	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
36	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	38	mark	_	_
37	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	38	nsubj	_	_
38	go	go	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	33	conj	_	_
39	into	into	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
40	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
41	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obl	_	_
42	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	44	cc	_	_
43	chop	chop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	compound	_	_
44	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	49	punct	_	_
46	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	49	advmod	_	_
47	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	49	nsubj	_	_
48	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	49	cop	_	_
49	ready	ready	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	53	punct	_	_
51	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	53	nsubj	_	_
52	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	53	aux	_	_
53	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	49	parataxis	_	_
54	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	55	cc	_	_
55	call	call	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	53	conj	_	_
56	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	55	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
57	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	49	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
58	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	49	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **set** | past | twigs *= twig* | fire | pebbles *= pebble* |  | then |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **burnt up** | participle |  | the flame *not said here* |  |  |  | high *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the wife |  |  |  | now | as the flame | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **lie down** *in a quote* | present |  |  |  | the fire |  | down *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent near fire=Location |
| 5 | **rest** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | yourselves |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location yourselves=Theme |
| 6 | **go** *in a quote* | present | we |  |  | the forest and chop wood |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into forest=Initial\_Location |
| 7 | **is** *in a quote* | present | we |  |  |  |  | ready *property* | tree rules |
| 8 | **come** *in a quote* | future | the wife *= wife* |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 9 | **call** *in a quote* | infinitive | the wife *= wife* *not said here* |  | you |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient |

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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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