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title: Early in the morning the stepmother came and pulled them out of bed,… — Grimm's Fairy Stories · tree and pragmatics
description: Early in the morning the stepmother came and pulled them out of bed, and gave them each a slice of bread, which was still smaller than the former piece. Who acts: stepmother, bread. A sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Hansel and Grethel, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics 
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# Grimm's Fairy Stories, Hansel and Grethel, sentence 44

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Early in the morning the stepmother came and pulled them out of bed, and gave them each a slice of bread, which was still smaller than the former piece.

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**Who acts:** stepmother, bread · **What happens:** come, pull, give, be, slice · **To what, where:** pebbles, bed, slice, bread

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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 (stepmother, bread), 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:pg11027:8:44
# text = Early in the morning the stepmother came and pulled them out of bed, and gave them each a slice of bread, which was still smaller than the former piece.
1	Early	early	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	7	advmod	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	stepmother	stepmother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	pulled	pull	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
10	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obj	_	_
11	out	out	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
17	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	iobj	_	_
18	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	20	det	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	slice	slice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	bread	bread	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
24	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	27	nsubj	_	_
25	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	cop	_	_
26	still	still	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
27	smaller	small	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	22	amod	_	_
28	than	than	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	former	former	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	piece	piece	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | the stepmother |  |  |  | morning | early *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **pull** | past | the stepmother *not said here* | pebbles *= pebble* |  | bed |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent they=Theme out bed=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **give** | past | the stepmother *not said here* | each slice of bread | pebbles *= pebble* |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient slice=Theme |
| 4 | **is** | past | bread |  |  |  | still | than the former piece; small *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **slice** |  |  | bread |  |  |  |  | nom slice «possession transitive»: of=patient |

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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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