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title: But Hansel tried to comfort her by saying, "Wait a little while till… — Grimm's Fairy Stories · tree and pragmatics
description: But Hansel tried to comfort her by saying, "Wait a little while till the moon rises, and then we will quickly find the way." Who acts: Hansel, moon, we. 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 31

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But Hansel tried to comfort her by saying, "Wait a little while till the moon rises, and then we will quickly find the way."

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**Who acts:** Hansel, moon, we · **What happens:** try, comfort, say, wait, rise, find · **To what, where:** branch, way · **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 (Hansel, moon, 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:pg11027:8:31
# text = But Hansel tried to comfort her by saying, "Wait a little while till the moon rises, and then we will quickly find the way."
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	Hansel	Hansel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	tried	try	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	comfort	comfort	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
6	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	_
7	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
8	saying	say	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	Wait	wait	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	ccomp	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	while	while	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl:unmarked	_	_
15	till	till	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	moon	moon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
18	rises	rise	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
21	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	25	advmod	_	_
22	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
23	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
24	quickly	quickly	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
25	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	conj	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **try** | past | Hansel |  |  |  |  |  | vn try-61.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **comfort** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Hansel *not said here* | branch |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus she=Experiencer |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | Hansel *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **wait** *in a quote* | infinitive |  |  |  |  | while |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **rise** *in a quote* | present | the moon |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **find** *in a quote* | future | we | the way |  |  | then | quickly *property* | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Topic |

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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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