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title: Hansel kept saying to Grethel, "We will soon find the way"; but they… — Grimm's Fairy Stories · tree and pragmatics
description: Hansel kept saying to Grethel, "We will soon find the way"; but they did not, and they walked the whole night long and the next day, but still they did not come out of the wood; and they got so hungry, for they had nothing to eat but the berries which they found upon the bushes. Who acts: Hansel, We
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# Grimm's Fairy Stories, Hansel and Grethel, sentence 55

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Hansel kept saying to Grethel, "We will soon find the way"; but they did not, and they walked the whole night long and the next day, but still they did not come out of the wood; and they got so hungry, for they had nothing to eat but the berries which they found upon the bushes.

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**Who acts:** Hansel, We, wood · **What happens:** keep, say, find, not do, walk, not come out · **To what, where:** Grethel, way, nothing · **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 (Hansel, We, wood), 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:pg11027:8:55
# text = Hansel kept saying to Grethel, "We will soon find the way"; but they did not, and they walked the whole night long and the next day, but still they did not come out of the wood; and they got so hungry, for they had nothing to eat but the berries which they found upon the bushes.
1	Hansel	Hansel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	kept	keep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	saying	say	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	xcomp	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Grethel	Grethel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
7	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	We	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
9	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
10	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	11	advmod	_	_
11	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	ccomp	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
17	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
19	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	18	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
22	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	walked	walk	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl:unmarked	_	_
27	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	23	advmod	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
33	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
34	still	still	ADV	RB	_	38	advmod	_	_
35	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	38	nsubj	_	_
36	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	38	aux	_	_
37	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	38	advmod	_	_
38	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	advcl	_	_
39	out	out	ADV	RB	_	38	advmod	_	_
40	of	of	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
42	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	46	punct	_	_
44	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	46	cc	_	_
45	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	46	nsubj	_	_
46	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
47	so	so	ADV	RB	_	48	advmod	_	_
48	hungry	hungry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	46	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	52	punct	_	_
50	for	for	ADP	IN	_	52	case	_	_
51	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	52	nsubj	_	_
52	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	46	conj	_	_
53	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	52	obj	_	_
54	to	to	PART	TO	_	55	mark	_	_
55	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	53	acl	_	_
56	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	58	cc	_	_
57	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	58	det	_	_
58	berries	berry	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	53	conj	_	_
59	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	61	nsubj	_	_
60	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	61	nsubj	_	_
61	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	53	acl:relcl	_	_
62	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	64	case	_	_
63	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	64	det	_	_
64	bushes	bush	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	61	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
65	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **keep** | past | Hansel |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | Hansel *not said here* |  | Grethel |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to grethel=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 3 | **find** *in a quote* | future | We | the way |  |  |  | soon *property* | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Topic |
| 4 | **not** **do** | past | wood |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **walk** | past | wood |  |  |  | night | long *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **not** **come out** | past · do-support | wood |  |  |  | still | of the wood; out *property* | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient |
| 7 | **get** | past | wood |  |  |  |  | hungry *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 8 | **have** | past | wood | nothing |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Patient |
| 9 | **eat** | to-infinitive | wood *not said here* | nothing *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 10 | **find** | past |  |  |  |  |  | upon the bushes | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=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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