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title: "Know, then, my husband," answered she, "we will lead them away, qui… — Grimm's Fairy Stories · tree and pragmatics
description: "Know, then, my husband," answered she, "we will lead them away, quite early in the morning, into the thickest part of the wood, and there make them a fire, and give them each a little piece of bread; then we will go to our work, and leave them alone, so they will not find the way home again, and we
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# Grimm's Fairy Stories, Hansel and Grethel, sentence 4

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"Know, then, my husband," answered she, "we will lead them away, quite early in the morning, into the thickest part of the wood, and there make them a fire, and give them each a little piece of bread; then we will go to our work, and leave them alone, so they will not find the way home again, and we shall be freed from them." "

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**Who acts:** famine, we, children, our · **What happens:** know, answer, lead away, make, give, go · **To what, where:** famine, children, little piece, work, way, we · **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 (famine, we, children, our), 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:pg11027:8:4
# text = "Know, then, my husband," answered she, "we will lead them away, quite early in the morning, into the thickest part of the wood, and there make them a fire, and give them each a little piece of bread; then we will go to our work, and leave them alone, so they will not find the way home again, and we shall be freed from them." "
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Know	know	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	2	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
6	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	husband	husband	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
10	answered	answer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
11	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
15	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	lead	lead	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	ccomp	_	_
17	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obj	_	_
18	away	away	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	early	early	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	16	advmod	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
26	into	into	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	thickest	thick	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	29	amod	_	_
29	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	parataxis	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
35	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	36	advmod	_	_
36	make	make	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
37	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	36	obj	_	_
38	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
41	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	42	cc	_	_
42	give	give	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
43	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	42	iobj	_	_
44	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	47	det	_	_
45	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	47	det	_	_
46	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	47	amod	_	_
47	piece	piece	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	obj	_	_
48	of	of	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
49	bread	bread	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	54	punct	_	_
51	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	54	advmod	_	_
52	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	54	nsubj	_	_
53	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	54	aux	_	_
54	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	parataxis	_	_
55	to	to	ADP	IN	_	57	case	_	_
56	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	57	nmod:poss	_	_
57	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	54	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
58	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	60	punct	_	_
59	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	60	cc	_	_
60	leave	leave	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	54	conj	_	_
61	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	60	obj	_	_
62	alone	alone	ADV	RB	_	60	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
63	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	68	punct	_	_
64	so	so	ADV	RB	_	68	advmod	_	_
65	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	68	nsubj	_	_
66	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	68	aux	_	_
67	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	68	advmod	_	_
68	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	54	conj	_	_
69	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	70	det	_	_
70	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	68	obj	_	_
71	home	home	ADV	RB	_	68	advmod	_	_
72	again	again	ADV	RB	_	68	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
73	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	78	punct	_	_
74	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	78	cc	_	_
75	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	78	nsubj:pass	_	_
76	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	78	aux	_	_
77	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	78	aux:pass	_	_
78	freed	free	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	parataxis	_	_
79	from	from	ADP	IN	_	80	case	_	_
80	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	78	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
81	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
82	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
83	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **know** *in a quote* | imperative | famine *not said here* |  |  |  | then |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **answer** *speech: assert* | past |  |  | famine |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **lead away** *in a quote* | future | we | children *= child* |  |  |  | away, early *property* | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
| 4 | **make** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | children *= child* |  | there |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset they=Beneficiary fire=Product |
| 5 | **give** *in a quote* | infinitive | famine *not said here* | each little piece of bread | children *= child* |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient piece=Theme |
| 6 | **go** *in a quote* | future | we |  |  | our work | then |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to work=Initial\_Location |
| 7 | **leave** *in a quote* | infinitive | we *not said here* | children *= child* |  |  |  | alone *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
| 8 | **not** **find** *in a quote* | future | children *= child* | the way |  |  | again | home *property* | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Topic |
| 9 | **free** *in a quote* | shall · passive |  | we |  |  |  | from children *= child* | vn free-10.6.3-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: subject=Source |
| 10 | **work** *in a quote* |  | our |  |  |  |  |  | nom work «act intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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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