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title: Not long afterward there was again great scarcity in every corner of… — Grimm's Fairy Stories · tree and pragmatics
description: Not long afterward there was again great scarcity in every corner of the land; and one night the children overheard their stepmother saying to their father, "Everything is again consumed; we have only half a loaf left, and then the song is ended: the children must be sent away. Who acts: children, s
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# Grimm's Fairy Stories, Hansel and Grethel, sentence 37

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Not long afterward there was again great scarcity in every corner of the land; and one night the children overheard their stepmother saying to their father, "Everything is again consumed; we have only half a loaf left, and then the song is ended: the children must be sent away.

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**Who acts:** children, stepmother · **What happens:** be, overhear, say, consume, leave, end · **To what, where:** long great scarcity, corner, stepmother, Everything, children · **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 (children, stepmother), 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:pg11027:8:37
# text = Not long afterward there was again great scarcity in every corner of the land; and one night the children overheard their stepmother saying to their father, "Everything is again consumed; we have only half a loaf left, and then the song is ended: the children must be sent away.
1	Not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	2	advmod	_	_
2	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
3	afterward	afterward	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
4	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	5	expl	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
6	again	again	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	scarcity	scarcity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	nsubj	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	11	det	_	_
11	corner	corner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	21	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
17	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	18	nummod	_	_
18	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl:unmarked	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nsubj	_	_
21	overheard	overhear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
22	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	stepmother	stepmother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
24	saying	say	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	23	acl	_	_
25	to	to	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
29	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	33	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	Everything	everything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	33	nsubj:pass	_	_
31	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	33	aux:pass	_	_
32	again	again	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
33	consumed	consume	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	24	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	36	punct	_	_
35	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	36	nsubj	_	_
36	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	48	aux	_	_
37	only	only	ADV	RB	_	38	advmod	_	_
38	half	half	DET	PDT	NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac|PronType=Ind	40	det:predet	_	_
39	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	loaf	loaf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obj	_	_
41	left	leave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	36	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	48	punct	_	_
43	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	48	cc	_	_
44	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	48	advmod	_	_
45	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
46	song	song	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	nsubj:pass	_	_
47	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	48	aux:pass	_	_
48	ended	end	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	54	punct	_	_
50	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	51	det	_	_
51	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	54	nsubj:pass	_	_
52	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	54	aux	_	_
53	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	54	aux:pass	_	_
54	sent	send	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	48	conj	_	_
55	away	away	ADV	RB	_	54	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
56	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	48	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past |  | long great scarcity |  | every corner of the land |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **overhear** | past | the children | children's stepmother |  |  | night |  | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer stepmother=Stimulus |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | children's stepmother *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **consume** *in a quote* | present · passive |  | Everything |  |  | again | to children's father | vn consume-66 «NP V NP»: subject=Asset |
| 5 | **leave** *in a quote* | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **end** *in a quote* | present · passive |  | long great scarcity |  |  | then |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: subject=Eventuality |
| 7 | **send away** *in a quote* | must · passive |  | the children |  |  |  | away *property* | vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP»: subject=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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