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title: On the way, Hansel broke his in his pocket, and, stooping every now… — Grimm's Fairy Stories · tree and pragmatics
description: On the way, Hansel broke his in his pocket, and, stooping every now and then, dropped a crumb upon the path. " Who acts: Hansel. 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 45

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On the way, Hansel broke his in his pocket, and, stooping every now and then, dropped a crumb upon the path. "

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**Who acts:** Hansel · **What happens:** break, stoop, drop · **To what, where:** pocket, way, every, crumb, path

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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), 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:pg11027:8:45
# text = On the way, Hansel broke his in his pocket, and, stooping every now and then, dropped a crumb upon the path. "
1	On	on	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	Hansel	Hansel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	broke	break	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	pocket	pocket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	stooping	stoop	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	advcl	_	_
15	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	14	obj	_	_
16	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	14	advmod	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	16	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	dropped	drop	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	crumb	crumb	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
23	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	path	path	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
27	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **break** | past | Hansel | Hansel's pocket |  | the way |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer pocket=Patient |
| 2 | **stoop** | gerund | Hansel *not said here* | every |  |  | now |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location every=Theme |
| 3 | **drop** | past | Hansel *not said here* | a crumb |  | the path |  |  | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent crumb=Theme upon path=Destination |

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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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