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title: When Hansel and Grethel came near the witch's house she laughed wick… — Grimm's Fairy Stories · tree and pragmatics
description: When Hansel and Grethel came near the witch's house she laughed wickedly, saying, "Here come two who shall not escape me." Who acts: Hansel, witch, two. 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 72

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When Hansel and Grethel came near the witch's house she laughed wickedly, saying, "Here come two who shall not escape me."

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**Who acts:** Hansel, witch, two · **What happens:** come, laugh, say, not escape · **To what, where:** house, witch · **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, witch, two), 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:pg11027:8:72
# text = When Hansel and Grethel came near the witch's house she laughed wickedly, saying, "Here come two who shall not escape me."
1	When	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	5	mark	_	_
2	Hansel	Hansel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	Grethel	Grethel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
5	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	advcl	_	_
6	near	near	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	witch	witch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	's	's	PART	POS	_	8	case	_	_
10	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
11	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	laughed	laugh	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	wickedly	wickedly	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	saying	say	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	Here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	19	advmod	_	_
19	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	ccomp	_	_
20	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	24	nsubj	_	_
21	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	24	nsubj	_	_
22	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
23	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	24	advmod	_	_
24	escape	escape	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	ccomp	_	_
25	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	24	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	19	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | Hansel and Grethel |  |  | the witch's house |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme near house=Location |
| 2 | **laugh** | past | witch |  |  |  |  | wickedly *property* | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | witch *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **come** *in a quote* | infinitive |  |  |  | here |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **not** **escape** *in a quote* | shall | two | witch |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme i=Initial\_Location |

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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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