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title: Grethel came next, and, shaking her till she awoke, the witch said,… — Grimm's Fairy Stories · tree and pragmatics
description: Grethel came next, and, shaking her till she awoke, the witch said, "Get up, you lazy thing, and fetch some water to cook something good for your brother, who must remain in that stall and get fat; when he is fat enough I shall eat him." Who acts: Grethel, witch, you, brother. A sentence of «Grimm's
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# Grimm's Fairy Stories, Hansel and Grethel, sentence 75

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Grethel came next, and, shaking her till she awoke, the witch said, "Get up, you lazy thing, and fetch some water to cook something good for your brother, who must remain in that stall and get fat; when he is fat enough I shall eat him."

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**Who acts:** Grethel, witch, you, brother · **What happens:** come, shake, awake, say, get up, thing · **To what, where:** witch, water, something, stall, Grethel · **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 (Grethel, witch, you, brother), 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:pg11027:8:75
# text = Grethel came next, and, shaking her till she awoke, the witch said, "Get up, you lazy thing, and fetch some water to cook something good for your brother, who must remain in that stall and get fat; when he is fat enough I shall eat him."
1	Grethel	Grethel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	next	next	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	shaking	shake	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	advcl	_	_
8	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obj	_	_
9	till	till	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
10	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	awoke	awake	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	witch	witch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
15	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	Get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	ccomp	_	_
19	up	up	ADP	RP	_	18	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
22	lazy	lazy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	fetch	fetch	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
27	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	28	det	_	_
28	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
29	to	to	PART	TO	_	30	mark	_	_
30	cook	cook	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	advcl	_	_
31	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	30	obj	_	_
32	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
33	for	for	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	35	nmod:poss	_	_
35	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
37	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	39	nsubj	_	_
38	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	39	aux	_	_
39	remain	remain	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	35	acl:relcl	_	_
40	in	in	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
41	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	42	det	_	_
42	stall	stall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	obl	_	_
43	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	44	cc	_	_
44	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	39	conj	_	_
45	fat	fat	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	44	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	50	punct	_	_
47	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	50	advmod	_	_
48	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	50	nsubj	_	_
49	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	50	cop	_	_
50	fat	fat	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	conj	_	_
51	enough	enough	ADV	RB	_	50	advmod	_	_
52	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	54	nsubj	_	_
53	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	54	aux	_	_
54	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	50	parataxis	_	_
55	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	54	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
56	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
57	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | Grethel |  |  |  |  | next *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **shake** | gerund | witch *not said here* | witch |  |  |  |  | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent she=Patient |
| 3 | **awake** | past | witch |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the witch |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 5 | **get up** *in a quote* | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 6 | **thing** *in a quote* |  | you |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **fetch** *in a quote* | present |  | some water |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Theme |
| 8 | **cook** *in a quote* | to-infinitive |  | something |  |  |  | for your brother | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent something=Material for brother=Beneficiary |
| 9 | **remain** *in a quote* | must | your brother |  |  | that stall |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in stall=Location |
| 10 | **get** *in a quote* | infinitive | your brother *not said here* |  |  |  |  | fat *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 11 | **is** *in a quote* | present | Grethel |  |  |  |  | enough, fat *property* | tree rules |
| 12 | **eat** *in a quote* | shall | the witch *= witch* | Grethel |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient |

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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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