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title: A good meal of milk and pancakes, with sugar, apples, and nuts, was… — Grimm's Fairy Stories · tree and pragmatics
description: A good meal of milk and pancakes, with sugar, apples, and nuts, was spread on the table, and in the back room were two nice little beds, covered with white, where Hansel and Grethel laid themselves down, and thought themselves in heaven. Who acts: Hansel. A sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jac
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# Grimm's Fairy Stories, Hansel and Grethel, sentence 69

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A good meal of milk and pancakes, with sugar, apples, and nuts, was spread on the table, and in the back room were two nice little beds, covered with white, where Hansel and Grethel laid themselves down, and thought themselves in heaven.

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**Who acts:** Hansel · **What happens:** spread, cover, lay down, think · **To what, where:** good meal, table, two nice little beds, meal, heaven

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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:pg11027:8:69
# text = A good meal of milk and pancakes, with sugar, apples, and nuts, was spread on the table, and in the back room were two nice little beds, covered with white, where Hansel and Grethel laid themselves down, and thought themselves in heaven.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	meal	meal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	milk	milk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	pancakes	pancake	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	with	with	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	sugar	sugar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	apples	apple	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	nuts	nut	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
17	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux:pass	_	_
18	spread	spread	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
19	on	on	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	table	table	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
24	in	in	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	back	back	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
27	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	_
28	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	34	aux:pass	_	_
29	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	32	nummod	_	_
30	nice	nice	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
31	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	beds	bed	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
34	covered	cover	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	parataxis	_	_
35	with	with	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
38	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	42	advmod	_	_
39	Hansel	Hansel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	42	nsubj	_	_
40	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	41	cc	_	_
41	Grethel	Grethel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	39	conj	_	_
42	laid	lay	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	34	conj	_	_
43	themselves	themselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	42	obj	_	_
44	down	down	ADP	RP	_	42	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	47	punct	_	_
46	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	47	cc	_	_
47	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	advcl	_	_
48	themselves	themselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	47	obj	_	_
49	in	in	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
50	heaven	heaven	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **spread** | past · passive |  | a good meal of milk and pancakes and sugar and apples and nuts |  | the table |  |  | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme on table=Destination |
| 2 | **cover** | past · passive |  | two nice little beds |  |  |  | with white; in the back room | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination in room=Theme |
| 3 | **lay down** | past | Hansel and Grethel | meal |  |  |  |  | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent themselves=Result |
| 4 | **think** *speech: other* | past |  | meal |  | heaven |  |  | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot themselves=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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