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title: The old woman behaved very kindly to them, but in reality she was a… — Grimm's Fairy Stories · tree and pragmatics
description: The old woman behaved very kindly to them, but in reality she was a wicked witch who waylaid children, and built the bread-house in order to entice them in, but as soon as they were in her power she killed them, cooked and ate them, and made a great festival of the day. Who acts: woman, wicked witch
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# Grimm's Fairy Stories, Hansel and Grethel, sentence 70

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The old woman behaved very kindly to them, but in reality she was a wicked witch who waylaid children, and built the bread-house in order to entice them in, but as soon as they were in her power she killed them, cooked and ate them, and made a great festival of the day.

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**Who acts:** woman, wicked witch, meal · **What happens:** behave, be, waylay, build, entice, kill · **To what, where:** old woman, meal, wicked witch, reality, children, bread house

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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 (woman, wicked witch, meal), 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:pg11027:8:70
# text = The old woman behaved very kindly to them, but in reality she was a wicked witch who waylaid children, and built the bread-house in order to entice them in, but as soon as they were in her power she killed them, cooked and ate them, and made a great festival of the day.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	behaved	behave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl	_	_
5	very	very	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	kindly	kindly	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
10	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	reality	reality	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
13	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
14	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	wicked	wicked	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	witch	witch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
18	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	19	nsubj	_	_
19	waylaid	waylay	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	acl:relcl	_	_
20	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	built	build	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	conj	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
25	bread	bread	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
28	in	in	SCONJ	IN	ExtPos=SCONJ	31	mark	_	_
29	order	order	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	fixed	_	_
30	to	to	PART	TO	_	31	mark	_	_
31	entice	entice	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	acl	_	_
32	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	obj	_	_
33	in	in	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	48	punct	_	_
35	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	48	cc	_	_
36	as	as	ADV	RB	_	37	advmod	_	_
37	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	48	advmod	_	_
38	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	43	mark	_	_
39	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	43	nsubj	_	_
40	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	43	cop	_	_
41	in	in	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
42	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	43	nmod:poss	_	_
43	power	power	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	advcl	_	_
44	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	45	nsubj	_	_
45	killed	kill	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	43	acl:relcl	_	_
46	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	45	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
48	cooked	cook	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	parataxis	_	_
49	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	50	cc	_	_
50	ate	eat	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	48	conj	_	_
51	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	50	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	54	punct	_	_
53	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	54	cc	_	_
54	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	conj	_	_
55	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	57	det	_	_
56	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	57	amod	_	_
57	festival	festival	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	54	obj	_	_
58	of	of	ADP	IN	_	60	case	_	_
59	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	60	det	_	_
60	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	57	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
61	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **behave** | participle |  | the old woman but a wicked witch *not said here* | meal |  |  | kindly *property* | vn masquerade-29.6-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is a** | past | woman | a wicked witch |  | reality |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **waylay** | past | a wicked witch | children |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **build** | past | a wicked witch *not said here* | the bread house |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset house=Product |
| 5 | **entice** | to-infinitive | a wicked witch *not said here* | children *= child* |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus they=Experiencer |
| 6 | **is** | past | meal |  |  | woman's power |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **kill** | past | woman | meal |  |  |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
| 8 | **cook** | past |  |  |  |  |  | soon *property* | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 9 | **eat** | past |  | meal |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient |
| 10 | **make** | past | a wicked witch *not said here* | a great festival of the day |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset festival=Product |

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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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