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title: But Hansel still kept dropping crumbs as he went along. — Grimm's Fairy Stories · tree and pragmatics
description: But Hansel still kept dropping crumbs as he went along. 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 49

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But Hansel still kept dropping crumbs as he went along.

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**Who acts:** Hansel · **What happens:** keep, drop, go along · **To what, where:** crumbs

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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:pg11027:8:49
# text = But Hansel still kept dropping crumbs as he went along.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	Hansel	Hansel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	still	still	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	kept	keep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	dropping	drop	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	xcomp	_	_
6	crumbs	crumb	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
7	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
8	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	advcl	_	_
10	along	along	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **keep** | past | Hansel |  |  |  | still |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **drop** | gerund | Hansel *not said here* | crumbs |  |  |  |  | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent crumb=Theme |
| 3 | **go along** | past | Hansel |  |  |  |  | along *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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